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Adam Peter Lanza (April 22, 1992 – December 14, 2012) lived with his mother, Nancy Lanza, in Newtown, 5 miles (8 km) from the elementary school. [146] He did not have a criminal record. [ 8 ] [ 147 ] [ 148 ] He had access to guns through his mother, who was described as a "gun enthusiast who owned at least a dozen firearms".
The father of a child gunned down in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was found dead from an apparent suicide outside Newtown's Edmond Town Hall early on Monday morning.. The body of ...
Earlier that day, Lanza fatally shot his mother at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived at the school, Lanza committed suicide. The incident is the deadliest mass shooting at an elementary school in U.S. history, and the fourth-deadliest mass shooting overall. The shooting prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States.
Four years ago today, 20 children and six women were killed in what remains the deadliest mass shooting at a high school or grade school in U.S. history. Remembering Sandy Hook: A 4-year ...
Twenty students and six adults were killed on Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, by gunman Adam Lanza, who used a Remington Bushmaster rifle as he shot his way into the Sandy Hook Elementary ...
Victoria Leigh Soto (November 4, 1985 – December 14, 2012) was an American teacher who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. After the gunman, Adam Lanza, entered the school, she hid her students in her classroom. When Lanza entered Soto’s classroom, Soto claimed that the students were in the gym room.
Newly-released court documents from the investigation into the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School are shedding light on Adam Lanza mindset in the years leading up to the mass shooting.
It was the second-deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history at the time, after the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings. [8] [9] Following the shooting, both the Lanza family home and Sandy Hook Elementary School were demolished, in 2013 and 2016 respectively; a new school being rebuilt at the same site. [10] [11]