(CNN) -- Robbie Parker has a message for the family of the gunman who killed his 6-year-old daughter and 19 of her school mates. "I can't imagine how hard this experience must be for you, and I want you to know that our family and our love and our support goes out to you as well," Parker said, as he remembered his oldest girl, Emilie Alice. Emilie died Friday at the hands of a gunman who opened fire at her elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. The attack killed 20 children, between the ages of 6 and 7, and six faculty members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, before the suspect apparently committed suicide. Earlier, the man allegedly killed his mother, bringing to 27 the number of lives he took.
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Emilie Parker, 6, was killed Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Her father, Robbie Parker, delivers a message for the shooter's family
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"I can't imagine how hard this experience must be for you," he says
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The family is raising money to take Emilie's body to be buried in Utah
When the lockdown was lifted, @placeholder raced to a firehouse near the school where parents were gathering to wait for news of their children.