Massacre at elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

A casket carrying the body of slain teacher Victoria Soto arrives to the Lordship Community Church on Wednesday in Stratford, Conn. The first-grade teacher died while protecting her students during Friday’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.  (John Moore / Getty Images)

The hearse carrying the body of James Mattioli, 6, arrives at St. John’s Roman Catholic Cemetery in Darien, Conn.   (Don Emmert / AFP/Getty Images)

One man is momentarily alone with his grief while others shovel dirt onto the grave of 6-year-old Noah Pozner at B’nai Israel Cemetery in Monroe, Conn.  (Julio Cortez / Associated Press)

The casket of 6-year-old Jessica Rekos is carried to St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown, Conn. Rekos was one of the 20 children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Friday.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

The funeral procession for Jack Pinto, 6, one of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, crosses a bridge in Newtown, Conn.  (Peter Foley / EPA)

A school bus carries students to Newtown Middle School as classes resumed Tuesday at all Newtown, Conn., schools except Sandy Hook Elementary, the site of Friday’s shooting.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A member of Newtown Middle School faculty greets a student with a fist bump as classes resume in Newtown, Conn., on December 18, 2012.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Police cruisers are stationed Tuesday outside the home of Nancy Lanza, where she lived with her son, Adam Lanza, in Sandy Hook, Conn. Nancy Lanza was her son’s first victim Friday before he went on a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School.  (Don Emmert / AFP/Getty Images)

A note and flowers are left at a makeshift memorial to victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Courtnie Shields of Huntsville, Ala., holds up a memorial sign for those who died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. Shields, with the National Assn. for the Prevention of Starvation, traveled to the town with a group to offer support to victims’ families.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Christmas lights spell out a timely message in Newtown, Conn.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

People continue to light candles at a makeshift memorial to those that lost their lives in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

People continue to flock to a makeshift memorial to pay their respects to those who died in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Mourners arrive for the funeral of Jack Pinto, 6.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A family leaves Honan Funeral Home in Newtown, Conn., after paying their respects to shooting victim Jack Pinto, 6.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A boy comforts a friend at the funeral for Sandy Hook Elementary School student Jack Pinto, 6.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A hearse carries the body of Sandy Hook Elementary School student Jack Pinto, 6, to Newtown Village Cemetery.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

An unidentified man pays his respects Monday at a makeshift shrine to the victims of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn.  (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP / Getty Images)

Names of victims hang on a U.S. flag on a makeshift memorial Monday in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Conn., as the town mourns victims killed in the school shooting.  (Julio Cortez / Associated Press)

A man walks with flowers Monday in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Conn., as the town mourns victims killed in the school shooting.  (Julio Cortez / Associated Press)

A woman puts a photo of a child on a makeshift memorial Monday in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Conn.  (Julio Cortez / Associated Press)

Mark Sorrentino, of Naugatuck, Conn., pays respects Monday near a U.S. flag carrying the names of victims on a makeshift memorial in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown.  (Julio Cortez / Associated Press)

Funerals began Monday in the Connecticut town of Newtown after the school massacre that took the lives of 20 small children and six staff.  (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP / Getty Images)

Missi Inconstanti gets a hug of support from Sara Panaccio outside Newtown High School, where an interfaith service was being held for victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A display on the road into Newtown, Conn., honors victims of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A sign in front of a home expresses goodwill in Newtown, Conn.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Daysha Bertrand, 13, left, brother Juan, 9, and their mother, Sharon, from Waterbury, Conn., are part of the overflow crowd listening to an interfaith memorial service, featuring President Obama, through speakers outside Newtown High School.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Two young women hug at Sunday’s memorial service for the victims and relatives of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.  (Mandel Ngan / AFP/Getty Images)

President Obama speaks at a memorial service Sunday for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.  (Mandel Ngan / AFP/Getty Images)

The overflow crowd at Sunday’s memorial service had to listen to President Obama’s speech in the rain from outside Newtown high School.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A woman holds a stuffed bear at a makeshift memorial for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting before a service at St. Rose of Lima Church.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

People wait in line to enter St. Rose of Lima Church for Sunday services.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A memorial stands on a street corner outside the Newtown Police Station.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Rhonda Eleish talks to her daughter Kari Ergmann, 6, at a candlelight vigil in Newtown, Conn. Eleish said Kari may have known one of the shooting victims.  (David Goldman / Associated Press)

Mothers and children pay respects at a memorial for shooting victims near Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.   (Jason DeCrow / Associated Press)

A candlelight vigil is held in Sandy Hook for the victims of Friday’s shootings.  (Don Emmert / AFP/Getty Images)

People left flowers and stuffed animals at a makeshift memorial at the foot of the road that leads to the Sandy Hook Elementary School.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Mourners visit a makeshift memorial for victims of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

People embrace at a makeshift memorial at the foot of the road that leads to Sandy Hook Elementary School.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Maria Rivera is overcome with emotion at a makeshift memorial for victims of the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A couple mourn the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Tatiana Cook walks with her son Stephen, 7, a second-grader at Sandy Hook Elementary School who survived the shooting. “It’s hard to put any of it in thoughts,” Cook said. “It’s terrorizing and horrible, but on the same side it was one of the happiest moments seeing him at the firehouse.”   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A young girl watches mourners place flowers at a roadside memorial at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Saturday, the day after the shooting.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A sign supports victims’ families Saturday outside a home near the Sandy Hook School.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Noah Iott, 10, leaves stuffed animals at a police barricade — the closest he could get to Sandy Hook Elementary School on Saturday — in memory of the people killed there the day before. Noah lives in the nearby town of Seymour.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Sandy Hook residents Austin Isola, from left, Nicole Rothenbucher, her mother Amy and Sarah Negron pay tribute to the shooting victims.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

“Our hearts are with you,” reads a sign posted on a telephone pole in Sandy Hook, Conn., the day after the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A flag flies at half-staff as dawn breaks Saturday in Newtown.  (Jason DeCrow / Associated Press)

Men and women hold candles in vigil outside of St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church during a healing service held in honor of victims in the elementary school shooting.  (Charles Krupa / Associated Press)

Mourners hold hands inside the St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church at a vigil service for victims.  (Andrew Gombert / EPA)

People embrace in the aftermath of the school shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that brought police swarming into the leafy neighborhood, while other area schools were put under lockdown.  (Don Emmert / AFP/Getty Images)

A state police SWAT team member runs to a police car at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.  (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

Responders gather around a dark-colored car at the scene of a mass school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.   (Mario Tama / Getty Images)

A woman weeps as she arrives to pick up her children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.  (Frank Becerra Jr. / Associated Press)

A woman hugs her daughter as they’re reunited at the Sandy Hook firehouse after a mass shooting at the local elementary school in Newtown, Conn.  (Frank Becerra Jr. / Associated Press)

A couple walk away from the Sandy Hook Elementary School following a shooting inside the school in Newtown, Conn.  (Jeff Spooner / EPA)

A child is taken home by family members at the scene of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary.  (John Woike / Hartford Courant)

Parents and children, accompanied by law enforcement, leave a staging area where they were reunited with their children following the shooting.  (Jessica Hill / Associated Press)

A mother hurries with her children as police look through homes in the area following Friday morning’s deadly shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.  (Jessica Hill / Associated Press)

A distraught woman waits to hear about her sister, a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary, following Friday morning’s shooting.  (Jessica Hill / Associated Press)

State and local police, along with ambulances, descended on the school following the shooting.  (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)

Distressed parents gathered outside the elementary school on Friday morning.  ( John Woike / Hartford Courant)

Family members comfort each other Friday following the tragedy.  ( John Woike / Hartford Courant)

An adult escorts a child away from the scene of the shootings.  ( John Woike / Hartford Courant)

Parents gathered their children and took them home following the shootings.   ( John Woike / Hartford Courant)