As early reports of the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting emerged on the morning of Friday, December 14, 2012, there was an especially haunting image from outside of Sandy Hook Elementary School, showing a young woman screaming and crying into her cell phone. This photo was captioned simply, “a woman waiting to hear about her sister, a teacher, following the shooting” – leaving many to wonder just who this young woman was, and to hope, as she certainly must have hoped, that her sister made it out of the school unharmed.
