Correction: December 15, 2012
An earlier version of this article suggested that the gunman in the Connecticut shooting used a rifle to carry out the shootings inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School. In fact, according to law enforcement, the guns used in the school shooting were both handguns.
On the morning of the shooting, CNN showed the police running into a different school.
The local newspaper reported that an armed off-duty SWAT team member from another town was in the woods outside the school where the shooting occurred.
A man with a gun who was spotted in the woods near the school on the day of the incident was an off-duty tactical squad police officer from another town, according to the source.
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