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A collection of photos taken by a Yahoo News reporter in the immediate aftermath of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Newtown is in Fairfield County, Connecticut, about 17 miles (30 km) from New Haven, 30 miles (50 km) from Hartford, and 60 miles (100 km) from New York City. [15] Violent crime had been rare in the town of 28,000 residents; there was only one homicide in the town in the ten years before the school shooting. [16]
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.
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.
Virginia Tech shooting: April 16: 2007: ... Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting [a] Dec. 14: 2012: Newtown, CT ... Newtown, Connecticut
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 ...
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.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Gun-maker Remington can be sued over how it marketed the rifle used to kill 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, a divided Connecticut ...