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Shootings in Connecticut: Tears, prayers mark Dutchess vigil

Connecticut State Police lead children from Sandy Hook

Connecticut State Police lead children from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The shooting took the lives of 28 victims. (Dec. 14, 2012) (December 14, 2012 1:58 PM)

About 100 people gathered outside Dutchess Stadium on Friday evening for a tearful candlelight vigil to remember the victims of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.

The mood was somber in the stadium's front plaza as parents, grandparents and kids huddled in the cold, saying prayers for the 20 children and six adults gunned down by 20-year-old Adam Lanza at Sandy Hill Elementary School; Lanza's...

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