US school shooting victims identified Responders gather at the scene of a mass school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut Police search a building after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown A young boy is comforted outside Sandy Hook Elementary School The families of victims grieve near Sandy Hook Elementary School US President Barack Obama wipes his eye as he speaks to reporters following the shooting at a Connecticut elementary school People gather outside the White House to participate in a candlelight vigil to remember the victims at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut A flag at the US Capitol flies at half staff after President Barack Obama ordered the action while speaking on the shootings Farah Sheik of New York takes part in a candlelight vigil in Times Square for the victims of the Sandy Hook School shooting People grieve outside a vigil at the Saint Rose of Lima church in Newtown, Connecticut Previous image Next image Next Thumbnails Previous Thumbnails The 26 victims of a mass shooting at a suburban Connecticut elementary school included 20 children all aged six or seven, in one of the worst shooting sprees in US history. The full list of the identities of the 20 children and six adults killed at the school was released by state authorities on Saturday afternoon. The children included 12 girls and eight boys, and the adults were all female and included Dawn Hocksprung, the school's principal, and Mary Sherlach, its psychologist. All the children had been shot more than once, according to Wayne Carver, Connecticut's chief medical examiner. He said he had personally performed seven of the autopsies, and the children he had examined had between three and eleven wounds. Dannel Malloy, the state's governor, said: "It's too early to speak of recovery. But each parent, each sibling, each member of the family has to understand that Connecticut, we're all in this together. We'll do whatever we can to overcome this event. We will get through it, but this is a terrible time for this community, these families. The alleged gunman was also identified as Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old, who was found dead at the scene. Nancy Lanza, his mother, was also found dead at her home near the school. A Connecticut state police spokesman told a media briefing on Saturday that investigators had found "very good evidence"" in "hopefully painting a complete picture about how and . . . why" the shooting occurred. Lieutenant Paul Vance said that the gunman had "forced his way into the school," but did not provide any further details. One person, a woman who worked at the school, was shot and survived, and he said that her comments would be "instrumental." The killings reignited the debate on the politics of gun ownership, after President Barack Obama said on Friday that he would press for "meaningful action regardless of politics" - a suggestion that he might push for tighter gun controls after the seventh mass shooting this year. The White House said that President Obama would visit Newtown on Sunday to meet the families of the victims and thank the first responders. The President would also speak at an interfaith vigil in the town at 7pm eastern time. The death toll makes the incident one of the worst in the country's history - second only to the Virginia Tech massacre of 2007 in which 32 people plus the gunman were killed. The US has experienced a string of mass shootings this year, including an attack this week at a mall in Portland, Oregon, where two people and the gunman were killed. A gunman killed 12 people and wounded 58 in a Colorado movie theatre in July, while a former US serviceman opened fire at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in August, killing six. In an emotional address in response to the killings on Friday, Mr Obama said, "We've endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years."