A Mother's Lament (About Newtown School Shooting) Poem by Vikas Sharma

NEWTOWN, Conn.-A shooting rampage in this small Connecticut town on Friday morning left 28 people dead, including 20 children killed inside their elementary school, authorities said. The dead included the suspected gunman, whom law enforcement sources identified as Adam Lanza,20. Police said that Lanza first apparently killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at the home they shared in Newtown. Then he drove in her car to Sandy Hook Elementary, the school at which Nancy Lanza taught kindergarten.At the school, authorities said, Adam Lanza shot and killed six adults — including the school's principal — and 20 children.