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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 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut.The perpetrator, Adam Lanza, fatally shot his mother before murdering 20 students and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and later committed suicide. [1]
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]
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 ...
Even before the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., occurred, people who lived in gunman Adam Lanza's neighborhood said that the Lanza home had always been a "black ...
The Newtown-Sandy Hook. HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Some Newtown residents are calling for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter's home to be torn down and replaced with a park or nature preserve ...
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]
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.