Stop the gifts, says shootings town

Officials in Newtown, Connecticut, are asking people to stop sending gifts following the school gun killings, saying they are deeply grateful but can not handle the deluge.
By The Newsroom
Published 27th Dec 2012, 19:25 BST

The mayor, police chief and schools superintendent made the request through the Newtown Bee newspaper.

They said that since a gunman killed 20 children and six staff on December 14, gifts had arrived in such numbers they had overwhelmed the small community’s ability to process them.

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They are asking people to stop sending until they have processed the “warehouses full of items” and worked out the best way they can help.

Meanwhile, a local charity says that a fund established after the shooting to support Newtown has grown to $3.5m.