The gunman in America's worst school shooting blasted his way through a locked glass door, climbed through and carried out the massacre, the Connecticut governor says.
Adam Lanza, 20, opened fire inside Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday morning, killing 26 people. Twenty of the victims were children, all aged six or seven, including British boy Dylan Hockley.
Governor Dan Malloy revealed that the gunman committed suicide as the first responders were closing in.
"He shot his way into the building. He penetrated the building by literally shooting an entrance into the building. That's what an assault weapon can do for you," he said.
"He discharged to make an opening and then went through it, went to the first classroom... went to the second classroom.
"We surmise that it was during the second classroom episode that he heard responders coming and apparently at that, decided to take his own life."
The shooting has plunged Newtown into mourning Police had said Lanza forced his way into the school in the picturesque town of Newtown, but it was not clear he did it by shooting his way in.
Mr Malloy said the first call for help from the school came from someone who was wounded but survived, and that first responders were swift.
Lanza shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, to death at the home they shared on Friday, then drove to the school in her car with at least three of her guns.
Initial reports suggested Lanza used two handguns in his spree, but officials revealed Saturday that his main weapon was .223 caliber Bushmaster, a civilian version of the US military's M4.
As President Barack Obama prepared to visit Newtown later Sunday, churches opened their doors to comfort a grieving town.
Adam Lanza killed himself as police closed in All the victims at the school were shot with a rifle, at least some of them up close, and all were apparently shot more than once, Chief Medical Examiner Dr H Wayne Carver said. There were as many as 11 shots on the bodies he examined.
All six adults killed at the school were women. Of the 20 children, eight were boys and 12 were girls.
A father has paid an emotional tribute to his murdered six-year-old daughter, after police released the names of the gunman's 27 victims.
Robbie Parker said his final conversation with Emilie was in Portuguese, the language he was helping to teach her.
"She told me 'good morning' and asked how I was doing, and I said that I was doing well," he told reporters.
"She said that she loved me, and I gave her a kiss and I was out the door."
Headteacher Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlach both died as they tried to confront the gunman.
The pair were in a meeting with therapist Diane Day on Friday, when the gunman began shooting at 9.30am.
On hearing the shots, they both jumped out of their seats and ran out of the room.
"They didn't think twice about confronting or seeing what was going on," Ms Day said.
Coroners have formally identified all the school victims Ms Hochsprung is also believed to have switched on a loudspeaker system in the school to alert students and staff to the danger.
"She was just an amazing woman ... the kids loved her. It's a huge loss for our school and our town," said assistant librarian Maryanne Jacobs.
Fourth-grade teacher Theodore Varga said: "You could hear the hysteria that was going on.
"Whoever did that saved a lot of people. Everyone in the school was listening to the terror that was transpiring."
Another hero was said to be first-grade teacher Vicki Leigh Soto, 27, described by police as someone who "put herself between the kids and the gunman's bullets".
Her body was found huddled with the students in a classroom closet, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Youth soccer coach David Flook, originally from Northampton, England, told Sky News of the turmoil his town is now in.
"Everybody is absolutely devastated. People don't know what they can do," he said.
He described Newtown as the "least dangerous place on earth".
He added: "It was the perfect town."
The father of gunman Adam Lanza released a statement on Saturday night. He said: "Our hearts go out to the families and friends who lost loved ones and to all those who were injured.
"We are in a state of disbelief and trying to find whatever answers we can. We too are asking why."
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