Photo Gallery Horror and Emotion in Newtown
Twenty-seven wood painted angels are displayed outside of a home in Newtown, Connecticut following Friday's mass-killings at the nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School. The US is in shock and mourning following the attack.
Many residents left offerings of grief at a curbside shrine in Newtown.
US President Barack Obama deliverd a speech during Sunday evening's memorial service in Newtown. "We can't tolerate this anymore," he said.
Locals visiting the impromptu memorial outside of the church in Newtown. On Sunday, local police announced that the killer, Adam Lanza, had hundreds of unused rounds of ammunition with him.
Elizabeth Bogdanoff and her daughter at a Saturday prayer service. A gun control debate erupted in the US over the weekend with Congressional Democrats promising to introduce legislation soon.
God Bless Sandy Hook. A man hangs a sign on his home near the elementary school in Newtown. Friday's attack was one of the worst school shootings in the country's history.
In total, Adam Lanza killed 27 people, including 20 children, six teachers and administrators at the school and his own mother. He also killed himself.
Mourners outside of Saint Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Newtown following a prayer service on Saturday.
Hundreds gathered for the Saturday prayer service at the Catholic Church, a scene that was repeated on Sunday for the memorial service at which Obama spoke.
Mourners lit candles on Saturday evening for the victims of the shooting.
On Sunday evening, more mourners came to the memorial with Obama than could fit into the church. Here, locals listen to the service on speakers outside of a local high school.
This unddated photo shows the perpetrator Adam Lanza. He apparently used assault weapons belonging to his mother.
The photo is of the Newtown High School technology club and appeared in the shool's yearbook.
The attack in Newtown was only the most recent in a long string of school shootings and mass murders in the US in the last several years. Rarely to legislators take action.
Sandy Hook Elementary School from the air on the day after the mass shooting. Several of the victims were shot multiple times, police officials have said.
US and global media have descended on Newtown in the wake of the shooting.
Police are doing their best to protect local from the mass numbers of journalists in town. Here, officers guard the entrance to the street leading to Sandy Hook Elementary School.
All flags in the town are flying at half-mast.
Many locals have hung out balloons and flowers in their grief over what happened on Friday.
Signs of condolence, sympathy and mourning can be found throughout the town of Newtown.
Signs and impromptu memorials are also set up in front of private homes in the area.
Newtown is an almost idyllic small town of 27,000 residents in Connecticut. Each of the numbers on the flag represent one of the victims.
The shooting on Friday shocked and appalled the entire country. Here, locals react as news of the shooting begins to spread.
Police units patrolling the streets outside of Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday.
US President Barack Obama addressed the nation on Friday following the shooting before heading to Newtown himself on Sunday for a memorial.
