Students evacuate Sandy Hook elementary in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012. (AP)
At least three are injured and multiple people dead after a shooting in a Connecticut elementary school Friday morning, according to local news reports. At least one child is dead, according to the Hartford Courant.
State police entered the elementary school after a shooting was reported there, spokesman Lt. Paul Vance told Yahoo News. Vance said the scene is still "active" and that "every available on- and off-duty officer in the vicinity" is responding to the scene.
State police told the Hartford Courant the shooter is believed to be dead, and that two handguns have been recovered from the scene. According to the newspaper, the gunman had been in the main office of Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., during the attack. Police said a person in one room had "numerous gunshot wounds." At least three people were taken to a nearby hospital in an ambulance, according to NBC Connecticut.
Matt Pitrone's family owns a glass business about a quarter mile from Shady Hook. He and his mother rushed to the school when they saw police cars and ambulance headed for the school.
"My nephew was in there," Pitrone told Yahoo News. "He's fine, but it was a crazy scene.""An EMT told me that there were two casualties, both of them adults," Pitrone said. "It doesn't look like any of the kids were hurt, just shaken up and crying."
The school is on lockdown and police began evacuating the building this morning, NBC Connecticut also reports.
Connecticut's News 8 WTNH-TV says a witness saw one child with a bloody face leaving the building.
The school's website says only that afternoon kindergarten is canceled today. Newtown has a population of 27,000 and is located about 80 miles northeast of New York City.
—Yahoo News reporter Jason Sickles contributed to this report.
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