Connecticut grade school shooting: 1 death reported amid lockdown State police responding to a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. By Michael Muskal December 14, 2012, 8:27 a.m. State and local police along with ambulances rushed to an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., amid reports of a shooting, according to officials and television reports from the scene. "Connecticut State Police are responding to a shooting," a spokeswoman for the agency said by telephone. We are responding to an active situation that is ongoing. Police were searching the school. The Hartford Courant reported that there were two shooters who entered the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, in western Connecticut. One of the shooters was dead and the other still at large, the newspaper said. State police could not conform this. Police would not yet comment on injuries, but at least one teacher was taken to a hospital in Danbury, according to an ambulance volunteer. The first calls were reported from the school to authorities about 9:40 a.m. The school is on lockdown and the entire district went on lockdown soon after. Televised images showed parents, looking dazed, in the school parking lot. Groups of students - some crying, some holding hands or clutching each others" shoulders - were being escorted away from the school by adults. A staging area has been set up for students and their parents near the school.