Newtown, CT – Connecticut Governor Chokes Up Says He Told Parents Their Children Were Killed

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    Newtown, CT – Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy broke down into tears on Monday as he recalled how, hours after a shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school, he took it upon himself to tell parents and other relatives that their children had been killed.

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    Malloy said he met with a roomful of family members near Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, following the massacre of 20 children and six adults there on Friday and found that many were still waiting for official word on the fate of their loved ones.

    “It was evident to me that there was a reluctance to tell parents and loved ones that the person they were waiting for was not going to return,” Malloy said in an emotional press conference.

    “That had gone on for a period of time well after there was an expectancy that families would be reunited,” he added.

    Malloy paused several times during his remarks as he choked up and wiped away tears.

    “So I made a decision that rather than relying on traditional investigative policies – that you actually have a child or an adult identified as the particular victim before you inform someone or at least give them the information by which they can formulate for themselves that their loved one was not going to return – I made the decision that to have that go on any longer was wrong. I did it,” he said.

    Malloy spoke to reporters as the funerals of two 6-year-old boys on Monday ushered in a week of memorial services and burials for victims of the mass shooting.

    Malloy said there are no words to describe the grief he has witnessed in recent days. He also spoke of the difficulty in trying to find the right thing to say to the families.

    “You try to feel their pain, but you can’t. You try to find some words that you hope will be adequate, knowing that they will be inadequate, and you see little coffins and your heart has to ache,” Malloy said. “So, you tell them that you grieve for their loss, you give them a hug and you tell them their community, their state and their nation and dare I say the whole world stands with them, and you hope that makes some difference.”


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    Avigail
    11 years ago

    I just saw an ad for “Resident Evil” – a shooting video game. No wonder kids are violent these days!