Officer Penna walked over and began checking for life amid the bodies and found a single girl standing alone, covered from head to toe in blood. The scene was too horrific to be from this earth, thought. Each had suffered multiple gunshot wounds. “They were all found wrapped together, clutching each other for comfort during their final moments.‘They’ve got to get you guys out of here,’ he told Chapman.” He collapsed to the ground … The ambulance pulled up to the entrance … Several first responders sprang to aid, picked him up off the ground by his shoulders, and carried the little girl’s lifeless body into the ambulance before racing away with lights blaring … Detective Joudy looked at Officer Chapman, covered in blood, walking back inside the school. Officer Chapman walked a few feet toward the bus before his strength gave out. ‘Get the bus!” Chapman screamed, still trying to comfort the young girl, who lay limp in his arms. ‘The police are here to protect you.’ As he walked farther he again shouted for an ambulance. ‘You’re safe now your parents love you,’ he kept repeating to Olivia again and again, trying to comfort her. The tall, muscular Chapman cradled the child in his arms and ran with her outside. Officer Chapman found a faint pulse on a little girl, Olivia Engel, who was still faintly breathing. “ came the grueling task of searching for signs of life among the children.Two other students ran into the bathroom.” They survived. First-grader Jesse Lewis, who was standing behind the children holding hands, stared directly at the shooter and shouted, ‘Run!’ Four did run, squeezing past the killer standing in the doorway. Lysiak’s book paints a vivid portrait of the remarkable heroism shown by those involved in the tragedy on December 14, 2012, and the sheer horror that occurred in the school: Authored by Matthew Lysiak, a staff writer for the Daily News who traveled to Newtown to cover the shooting, the book goes beyond the sensational news bytes we have become so accustomed to and reminds us of the heroism of the first responders who tried to so valiantly to make a difference that day, and the value of the lives that were lost. Late last year, Gallery Books published a new book on the Sandy Hook massacre, “ Newtown: An American Tragedy,” that brings into full relief the human element of the tragedy.
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