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The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people. Twenty of the victims were children between six and seven years old, and the other six were adult staff members.
- 28 (27 at the school, including the perpetrator; and the perpetrator's mother at home)
- Sandy Hook Elementary School, Sandy Hook, Connecticut, U.S.
- Overview
- The murder of Adam Lanza’s mother
- The shootings at Sandy Hook
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012, that left 26 people dead and 2 injured at the school. After murdering his mother at their home, Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School before taking his own life. It was one of the deadliest school shootings ...
The attack began when 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, in the home that the two shared in Newtown. She was shot four times with a .22-calibre rifle. She had purchased the rifle, as well as an AR-15—the civilian semiautomatic version of the military M16 assault rifle—and several other firearms that Adam Lanza would use later th...
Adam Lanza gathered the AR-15, two semiautomatic pistols, and a shotgun, as well as several hundred rounds of ammunition stored in high-capacity magazines, and drove his mother’s car to Sandy Hook Elementary School, a public school in Newtown for kindergarten through fourth grade. Leaving the shotgun in the car, Lanza shot his way through a window next to the school’s locked security door just after 9:30 am. He was immediately confronted by Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlach. Lanza shot and killed both women, but the encounter and the sounds of gunfire were broadcast to individual classrooms via the school’s public address system. In accordance with previously established lockdown protocols, teachers immediately took steps to attempt to safeguard their students, concealing them in closets or bathrooms and barricading doors with furniture or with their own bodies.
Lanza entered the classroom of teacher Lauren Rousseau and killed her and 14 children. He then went to a second classroom, where first-grade teacher Victoria Soto had hidden her students in a closet. She attempted to misdirect Lanza by telling him that her class was in the school’s auditorium on the other side of the building. Lanza killed Soto, as well as six students who attempted to flee from their hiding place. Also killed in the shooting were Anne Marie Murphy, a special education aide, and behavioral therapist Rachel D’Avino; two other Sandy Hook staff members were injured. Lanza fired 154 rounds in less than five minutes, claiming 26 lives.
Dec 14, 2021 · The 20 children and six adults killed nine years ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, will be remembered, always. Here’s a glimpse of what was lost.
- The gunman himself. Getty Images. The gunman was an introvert who reportedly spent most of his time in his room online. Lanza expressed an interest in Japanese techno music and had reportedly been taking some language and college courses.
- The depths of his killing obsession. Handout/GETTY. Police found a staggering amount of weapons near Lanza's body. In his online activity authorities uncovered his obsession with previous mass shootings and spree killings, including the 1999 Columbine High School shooting.
- His mother and mental health. Handout via Getty images. This photograph was recovered released by police - but Lanza's estranged father reportedly denied it was of him.
- Sexuality and feelings toward children. Handout VIA gETTY. He shot his way into his former school, killing six staff members. The woman he spoke to regularly said Lanza had expressed some details about his sexuality, including a notion that he may have been asexual.
Dec 14, 2022 · Connecticut passed strict gun control legislation within months of Sandy Hook, but it would take nearly a decade for Congress to pass even modest new federal gun legislation.
- Tovia Smith
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Twenty-six people -- 20 students and six adults -- were shot and killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14. As details continue to emerge, CNN presents a...
