In a heart-rending interview the mother of slain seven-year-old Grace McDonnell told of the last time she saw her daughter alive before she was killed in the Connecticut massacre along with 19 of her schoolmates. A devastated Lynn McDonnell said her last memory of daughter Grace was of the beaming child waving and blowing kisses to her from the bus, on her way to Sandy Hook Elementary School. Speaking with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday night, she bravely said: ‘I take comfort that she’s with friends, and she’s up there with her wonderful principal.' Scroll down for video A new blow: Lynn McDonnell (pictured during a December 2012 interview) was contacted by a man who claimed to have stolen the sign
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Parents Lynn and Chris McDonnell lost their daughter Grace, 7, during last Friday's deadly shooting
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Couple spoke with Anderson Cooper on their daughter's short but brilliant life, saying how she loved peace and art
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Also said: 'I take comfort that she's with friends; each one of those children was so beautiful'
Mrs McDonnell was joined by her husband @placeholder in the heart-wrenching interview.