Hours of pain in Connecticut: waking and identification of bodies

Authorities gave few clues about why it might be the author of the massacre in Newtown, a wooded and picturesque town northeast of the city of New York. All deceased were identified, reported Paul Vance, spokesman for the Connecticut State Police: "The investigation was performed overnight. Our goal was to identify all the victims to relieve families. Our officers worked through the night and could do it , "he told CBS. Hours after the killings, hundreds of people gathered for a vigil at the Church of Newtown, whose capacity was completely filled, and many had to be left out. "This community is really coming together when things like this happen," said Pastor Robert Weiss during mass. During the church service also read a letter from Pope Benedict XVI. "I asked our father God to comfort those who mourn the loss of a loved one and to hold the entire community with the spiritual force that is imposed to violence through forgiveness, hope and reconciling love, " wrote Pope. David Connors, whose triplets were in school during the shooting but were unhurt, said he was still shocked. "It's tough. I never imagined that something like this could happen here," he said. "Our faith has been tested," he said on his part the state governor, Dan Malloy, the crowd gathered. "Not necessarily our faith in God, but our faith in the community and who we are, what we represent collectively. " The President Barack Obama said as he wiped the tears and struggled to maintain his composure he was appalled by the tragedy. Vance explained that only one of the injured had survived and said the gunman had been unusually precise and methodical when firing. Most of the killings, which began at 9:30 local, "occurred in one wing of the school, in two rooms," said Vance. The murderer was Adam Lanza , 20, whom police mistook before with his brother Ryan Lance , 24, because he had his identity card at the time of the killing. Also in a Newtown housing was found dead Lanza's mother - the twenty-eighth victim if you count 26 of the school and the shooter himself, who was a teacher at Sandy Hookand Adam have completed before going to school.