All the victims at Sandy Hook school in Newtown died of gunshot wounds, H Wayne Carver II said.
A list of the dead has been released. All the children were aged six or seven, and all the adults were women.
The gunman, named in media reports as Adam Lanza, killed his mother before driving to the school and opening fire.
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