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I'm just glued to the news reports here at work. I just can't even fathom... just... how could someone?

@Mrsbells: Agreed, and I don't even have children. Just human compassion. I'm supposed to go to an office holiday party in an hour. How the **** am I supposed to network, be cozy, and drink and be merry? I just want to stay home out of respect for this tragedy. Seriously. And, I know being at home isn't going to do anything, but I've dedicated my career to being a DV family law attorney, so I help people for a living, and it just always strikes a cord with me. I can't keep from crying this is so awful.

@mrs. wagon: not him! http://www.inquisitr.com/438676/ryan-lanza-idd-as-newtown-school-shooting-gunman/

@dc yoga bee: screenshot for you

So heartbreaking, I was just crying in the car listening to the coverage on the radio. ABC news is reporting that his mother was a teacher at the school and is among the dead.

This is just awful! My heart aches for the parents of those kids. I don't even know how to feel right now, angry, sad, confused. What a sick person. Ugh I'm at work and want to go get my sweet baby and just hold him.

@HabesBabe: whaaaaaa. I told DH, I really hope this IS the guy. otherwise, that's a nice lawsuit.

@bpcmarj: How could he be updating his status if he was dead? Unless someone hacked into it, I guess. But there's more than one Ryan Lanza on FB.

On his facebook page it says he was born in Newtown, CT and he lives in Hoboken, NJ. What are the odds?

@Mrsbells: This Ryan Lanza's FB pic has been shared 14k+ times!

Ugh, this makes me feel sick. WTF is wrong with someone that they want to harm and kill kids? There are no answers for stuff like this.

@mrs. wagon: Nope, not him.

@zippylef: @mrs. wagon: on that twitter he says some guy with the same name.... who knows... so sad for everyone involved.

@mrs. wagon: that twitter acct seems to fit the story being told in the media. seems like he was depressed and couldn't handle his gf breaking up with him

The NYTimes is saying that the 18 children who were killed were all students in his mother's class, that he shot her first and then shot the children.

"The gunman, who was believed to be in his 20s, walked into a classroom where his mother was a teacher. He shot and killed her and then shot 18 students in the classroom. He also shot seven other adults, and then killed himself inside the school. Various news outlets identified the shooter as Ryan Lanza. The shooting ranks among the worst in recent United States history."

@mrsjazz: wow...

@prettylizy: exactly what i was thinking.

@prettylizy: listening on a live stream so I'm not watching the video, and I can't stop my tears from falling... here at work!

@dc yoga bee: Yeah its hard to think about anything else right now!

someone posted this on my parenting listserv:

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.

- Fred Rogers