Newtown holds funerals for victims of school massacre – in pictures

A police officer carries flowers into a funeral service for Noah Pozner Photograph: Jason DeCrow/AP

Mike Tadry from the New Harvest Christian Church of Newburgh, New York, carries wooden crosses he made to give to family members of victims. Tardy was delivering the crosses to the the funeral home in Newtown which will hold the funeral on Monday for six-year-old Jack Pinto Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

Mourners arrive at a funeral home in Fairfield, Connecticut, for the service for Noah Pozner, 6. The first burials, held under raw, wet skies, were for two six-year-old boys who were among those shot in Sandy Hook elementary school Photograph: DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images

Stuffed animals and a sign calling for prayer rest at the base of a tree near the Newtown Village Cemetery, where six-year-old Jack Pinto is to be buried Monday afternoon Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP

A mourner arrives at the funeral service for six-year-old Noah Pozner Photograph: Jason DeCrow/AP

A man walks with flowers on Monday in Newtown, where families will bury two of the 20 schoolchildren killed Friday Photograph: Julio Cortez/AP

Police officers comfort one another outside the funeral service for Noah Pozner Photograph: Jason DeCrow/AP

A snowflake ornament with the name of six-year-old Noah Pozner hangs on a Christmas tree in Newtown. Pozner will be buried Monday Photograph: Julio Cortez/AP

Mourners arrive for the funeral service of six-year-old Jack Pinto Photograph: David Goldman/AP

The hearse for Noah Pozner waits outside the Abraham L Green & Sons funeral home in Fairfield, Connecticut, on Monday Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters

A Connecticut state police tactical team searches near an elementary school which was in a lockdown in nearby Ridgefield, Connecticut, on Monday after a suspicious person was seen near a train station Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP

Names of victims hang on a US flag on a makeshift memorial in Newtown on Monday Photograph: Julio Cortez/AP

Ryan Bartolotta, 17, right, and Ray Massi, 18, light up candles that were put out by rain the memorial on Monday Photograph: Julio Cortez/AP

People pay their respects at a makeshift shrine to the victims of an elementary school shooting in Newtown on Monday Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

A sign showing the town seal and a black ribbon is posted on the door of a colonial home in the Newtown historic district Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP