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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]
In January 2013, New York became the first U.S. state to act after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act passed in the state Senate 43–18 on January 15 and cleared the New York State Assembly after about five hours of debate on Tuesday, January 16.
On the evening of December 16, 2012, Newtown High School was the scene of a prayer service commemorating the twenty children and six adults killed by Adam Lanza during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on December 14, 2012. Lanza had previously attended Newtown High School through the tenth grade. [9]
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.
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 ...
The shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, killed 20 first graders and six educators. Not all of the victims' families sued Jones. The relatives said they were traumatized by Jones’ hoax conspiracies ...
Newtown Public Schools is a school district in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of 2013 [update] it contained seven schools, with a total enrollment of 5298, [ 3 ] an increase of 1663 since 1994. [ 4 ]