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On December 14, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrator, 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.
By Nathan Layne. NEWTOWN, Conn. (Reuters) - Ten years after one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history, residents of the Connecticut town where it took place will mark the anniversary on ...
Sandy Hook Memorial. / 41.4232; -73.2758. The Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial is a memorial in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, that honors the twenty children and six educators who were victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on the morning of December 14, 2012. The memorial is located at 28 Riverside Road in the woods adjacent to the new ...
0213475. Website. www .newtown-ct .gov. Newtown ( / ˈnutaʊn / NOO-town) is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is part of the Greater Danbury metropolitan area as well as the New York metropolitan area. Newtown was founded in 1705, and later incorporated in 1711. As of the 2020 census, its population was 27,173. [4]
Battle of Newtown. / 42.045278; -76.733333. The Battle of Newtown (August 29, 1779) was the only major battle of the Sullivan Expedition, an armed offensive led by Major General John Sullivan that was ordered by George Washington to end the threat of the Iroquois who had sided with the British in the American Revolutionary War.
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.
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20,779. 2000. 25,031. Newtown Meeting House served as the town's Congregational Church for many years. The town of Newtown, originally known as Quanneapague, was purchased from the Pohtatuck Indians in 1705. In 1708, 36 Connecticut Englishmen petitioned the General Assembly to settle an area north of Stratford (at least seven men previously had ...