![]() ![]() She said they were 'not in anybody’s interest' and not how she wants to remember her son. T he release of the tapes was met with controversy, with some parents asking for them not to be made public.Īmong those who had campaigned for them to stay private was Nicole Hockley, who son Dylan, six, died. Lanza had shot his way into the school through the plate glass doors that had been locked, as was usual, because classes had started.Īn officer who helped bring surviving children to safety told them 'to cover their eyes' and one of the first officers to arrive on the scene feared being ambushed. Hours later 20 mothers and fathers were told their children were never coming home again. Parents were told to meet at the firehouse over the road from the school to await news of their children. The dispatcher says calmly: 'Ma’am, I need you to go to the scene and speak to a detective.' She said: ‘There are a bunch of kids running down Churchill Ave and some of them are in different houses but mine is still missing, I don’t know where he is!' There must have been 100 shots, I’m telling you.'Īnother mother who was outside of the school called 911 in a state of panic. The dispatcher asked her to put pressure on her wounds to stop them bleeding but the woman replied: ‘He’s right outside the. he's shot a hundred times … he must have some big artillery.'Īsked to describe Ms Hammond’s condition, the woman said she was ‘ barely’. Referring to Lanza, the woman said: 'God he's. Other 911 calls in the file detail how throughout the school whimpering could be heard on the loudspeaker which had been left on by accident.Ī parent who was with teacher Natalie Hammond, who has been shot in the foot and the hand, kept repeating ‘please Jesus’ over and over again.Ī gaping hole is pictured at the school, showing where Lanza opened fire on the buildingĪ 911 dispatcher tried to reassure her by telling her to ‘stay calm.and think of your kids’. ![]() ‘The shooter then opened fire on the mass of adults and children’.Īs the officer pulled the bodies out one by one it became clear that ‘no one has survived’. and were interrupted by the shooter as they attempted to fill the bathroom. 'The teachers appeared to be have been shepherding the children into the room and were probably going to shut the door. The officer wrote: 'As the pile got higher, it appeared that there was a mad scramble to get into the bathroom, with people stepping on top of one another and climbing on top of one another… Even though she was at the bottom of the pile, she was dead. He said one girl had been jammed between the toilet seat and the back of the room. A bullet hole can be seen in the frame of this poster for a children's book ![]()
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