West Essex Couple Attended Holiday Show at Sandy Hook Night Before Shooting
Roseland family directly impacted by shooting in Newtown, Conn.
Dennis and Conni Murray, longtime residents of Roseland, learned about Friday’s massacre in Newtown, Conn. the same way most Americans did -- on the news. Only the Murrays were one of several hundred people who attended Sandy Hook Elementary School’s fourth grade holiday show Thursday, the night before alleged gunman Adam Lanza took the lives of 20 children and six adults at the school as well as his own. The Murrays had traveled to Newtown to see their grandson, 10-year-old Brendan, perform at a local high school. “We met the principal who was killed,” Conni Murray said, “and the vice principal who was shot.” Dennis Murray learned about the unfolding tragedy around 9:45 a.m. Friday when he received a CNN alert on his cell phone about a…
