PHOTOS: Students, staff flee Conn. school after shooting

By: Andie Adams Email

Updated: Sat 9:43 PM, Dec 15, 2012

By: Andie Adams Email

The scene at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where a school shooting killed 26 people.

Students and parents evacuate outside.

Eighteen children are among those counted dead so far.

School children are escorted to safety at the school.

An official says the 20-year-old shooter has ties to the school.

The official said that a gun used in the attacks is a .223-caliber rifle.

Click on the picture to see images from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, where 26 have been killed in a shooting. That toll includes 18 children.

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