Victims in school massacre were shot multiple times, coroner says

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- All of the people killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School died from multiple wounds from a long gun and are classified as homicide victims, the state’s chief medical examiner said Saturday.

At a news conference, Dr. H. Wayne Carver II described the postmortems on the 20 children and six adults killed in Friday’s attack.

“I’ve been at this a third of a century and my sensibilities may not be the same as the average man,” Carver told reporters, “but this is probably the worst I have ever seen, the worst that I know any of my colleagues having seen.”

Officials distributed a list of all of the victims to reporters and were preparing to release the bodies to the families for burial.

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