After school shooting, neighbor took in 6 young survivors

Pat Eaton-Robb, Associated Press

Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012 | 12:30 a.m.

NEWTOWN, Conn. — Gene Rosen heard the staccato sound of gunfire near his home Friday morning, but dismissed it as a hunter in the nearby woods. Then, 15 minutes later, as he was heading from his house near Sandy Hook Elementary school to a diner, he saw the children. There were six of them, small children sitting in a neat semicircle at the end of his driveway. A school bus driver was standing over them, telling them things would be all right. It was about 9:30 a.m., and the children, he discovered, had just run from their school to escape ...

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By LastThroes

Dec. 18, 2012

6:58 a.m.

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"We can't go back to school," one little boy told Rosen. "Our teacher is dead. Mrs. Soto; we don't have a teacher."

One of the saddest things I've ever read.