User blog comment:FanOfStuff/Shooting/@comment-1874924-20121215004001

It is strongly recommended that you take with a grain of salt any reports that you hear from the first few days after an incident like this, because the early reports often get important details wrong. For example, in both the recent mall shooting in Oregon and the theater shooting in Colorado, early reports said that the gunmen were wearing bulletproof vests. (They weren't. They wore assault vests designed to resist things like fists and clubs, not bullets.) Also, an early report on the mall stated that the gunman had recently purchased his rifle (it was actually stolen) and that the shooter was still at large. (He actually killed himself.)

As for today's school shooting, we can safely assume that somebody shot a lot of kids at a school. Beyond that, pretty much all of the details are suspect for the nonce.