TWENTY children have died after a gunman opened fire at an elementary school in one of America's worst mass shootings.
The gunman's mother, a kindergarten teacher at the school, was among the victims.
Officials said the killer was 20-year-old Adam Lanza of New Jersey who died at the scene of the horrifying early-morning shooting spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
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