(UPDATE – 10:57 A.M.) NEWTOWN — Some see it as yet another headline recalling terrible memories.
Others in Newtown said the release today of a report on the Sandy Hook shootings will shed no new light on a tragedy that has been covered extensively in the last year.
“I’m under the impression that I know what happened,” a 24-year old town resident, who did not wish to be identified, said as he left the Newtown General Store. “I don’t expect that it’ll be anything particularly enlightening.”
A 38-year-old Newtown woman whose two children attend elementary school in town said she felt “nervous” over the release of the report and did not expect it would benefit the town’s healing process.
“It kind of doesn’t really matter what comes out,” she said, adding that most Newtown residents are “just trying to move forward.”
Frank Caico, of Danbury, stopped in to the Starbucks on Church Hill Road in Newtown for his morning coffee and said he understood both sides of the argument around the release of the report.
“I appreciate the families’ concerns and feelings,” he said. “On the other hand there’s the need for making these documents public … it’s a balancing act.”
Though news outlets across the state and country have anxiously awaited the report on the Sandy Hook shootings, most people in Newtown on Monday preferred not to comment on it.
“There is really no story,” one woman said when approached by a reporter.
“I think everyone’s getting stressed a little bit with anticipation,” the 38-year-old mother of two said outside of Starbucks. “It’s kind of a private thing.”