Many children reportedly shot at Connecticut school; alleged gunman is dead An elementary school student recalls the terrifying moments following sounds of shots fired at her Connecticut elementary school, saying "teachers told us to go in the corner so we all huddled." Updated at 12:40 p.m. ET: Many school children were shot, perhaps at least 20, two officials told NBC News, when a gunman burst into a Connecticut school Friday morning. The alleged gunman was later found dead, an official said of the shooting incident that sent crying children spilling into the parking lot. "I was in the gym and I heard a loud, like seven loud booms, and the gym teachers told us to go in the corner, so we all huddled," one student at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown told NBC Connecticut during its live broadcast. And I kept hearing these booming noises. And we all ... started crying. "All the gym teachers told us to go into the office where no one could find us," she added. So then a police officer came in and told us to run outside. So we did and we came in the firehouse and waited for our parents. Two 9mm handguns were recovered from the scene, an official told WNBC's Jonathan Dienst. The official had no information whether any children were hurt. Three people were taken to nearby Danbury Hospital, a spokeswoman told NBC Connecticut. She would not elaborate on the ages of the victims or their conditions. One of those taken to the hospital was a teacher who had been shot in the foot, the Associated Press reported, citing a dispatcher at the Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps. The Newtown Bee reported that one child, apparently wounded, was carried from the scene by a police officer. Shannon Hicks / The Newtown Bee. Children are led from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Friday after a reported shooting there. In a photo taken by the Bee, crying students could be seen being escorted from the school by police. They were taken to a nearby fire station where their parents were picking them up. A third-grader, Alexis Wasik, told the Hartford Courant that police checked students and staffers before they were escorted to the fire station. "We had to walk with a partner," she said. At Sandy Hook, police, ATF and FBI agents were going room to room searching the school. BreakingNews.com's coverage of the incident Swarming police response in mall shooting highlights 'paradigm shift' Newtown is about 45 miles southwest of Hartford and 60 miles northeast of New York City. The K-4 school has about 600 students. LIVE VIDEO - State troopers and local police respond to reports of a shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.