PHOTO GALLERY: Community remembers victims of Connecticut school shooting

December 15, 2012 | 9:38 p.m. CST

A candlelight vigil was held at Edmund Town Hall in Newtown, Conn., and a makeshift memorial was set up near Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 26 people, including 20 children, were killed when a gunman broke in the school.

Brian Tenenhaus, left, blows out a match after lighting a candle at a vigil outside the Edmond Town Hall with Lauren Foster, right, Saturday in Newtown, Conn. | David Goldman/The Associated Press

Rhonda Eleish, right, embraces her daughter Kari Ergmann, 6, both of Bridgewater, Conn., next to a candlelight vigil outside the Edmond Town Hall on Saturday in Newtown, Conn. Eleish suspects her daughter knew one of the victims of Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown that killed 26 people, including 20 children. | David Goldman/The Associated Press

Suada Likovic, 24, from left, Chelsea Crain, 23, Kristin Hoyt, 18, Jeffrey Hoyt, 16, and Linda Hoyt, all of Danbury, Conn., tie balloons to an overpass up the road from the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Saturday in Newtown, Conn. | David Goldman/The Associated Press

Mourners gather for a candlelight vigil outside the Edmond Town Hall on Saturday in Newtown, Conn. | David Goldman/The Associated Press

A memorial for shooting victims has been set up near Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where 26 people were killed. | David Goldman/The Associated Press