Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
Like graduating seniors everywhere, members of Newtown High School’s class of 2024 expect bittersweet feelings at their commencement ceremony — excitement about heading off to college or ...
Now getting ready to graduate, survivors of the Sandy Hook shooting want to make their futures count. Horror came to their school when they were just six years old. Now getting ready to graduate ...
Graduating seniors who formerly attended Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., speak with Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House on June 6. ... After the Las Vegas mass shooting ...
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.
Former Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords traveled to Newtown and met with the families of the victims of the shooting on January 4, 2013. [62] On February 2, 2013, 150 children from Sandy Hook Elementary School, their families and teachers were invited by the New York Knicks to attend their game against the Sacramento Kings. [63]
The graduation ceremony at Newtown High School included a moment of silence for the victims of the Dec. 14, 2012, mass shooting, who would have been receiving their diplomas.
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.