'Ripple Effect' of Sandy Hook Shooting Reaches Waukesha
Waukesha Alderman Paul Ybarra's coworker's 6-year-old son was killed in the Connecticut shooting.
When Waukesha Alderman Paul Ybarra saw the news reports about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Friday, he immediately started sending messages to his co-workers in Connecticut. “Please tell me your child wasn’t in that classroom,” Ybarra wrote them. Ybarra works for Tangoe, a company in Orange, CT. The business’ corporate office is about 15 minutes from Newtown, CT, where 20 elementary school students and six adults were gunned down by Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old man with Aspberger’s. One after another, co-workers responded to Ybarra’s messages: No. But 30 minutes later, a heartbreaking message was sent to Ybarra. One of the company’s administrative assistants lost her 6-year-old son in the massacre. Ybarra is not publicly naming…
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