As the investigation into what appears to be the second-deadliest shooting in U.S. history ramps up in Newtown, Connecticut, many across the nation are trying to comprehend the incomprehensible.
Why would someone massacre 20 children and six adults at a suburban elementary school Friday morning before killing himself?
Reporter Tory Dunan filed this report Friday night from Newtown.


A gunman opened fire in a Connecticut elementary school on December 14, killing 26 people — 20 of them children. All of the children were either 6 or 7 years old. The gunman also killed his mother, police said.