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Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Location of Newtown within Fairfield County and Connecticut
Location	Newtown, Connecticut, U.S.
Coordinates	41°25′12″N 73°16′43″W / 41.42000°N 73.27861°W / 41.42000; -73.27861
Date	December 14, 2012 (2012-12-14) c. 9:35 a.m. – c. 9:53 a.m. (EST)
Target	Students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School
Attack type	School shooting, murder–suicide, matricide, spree shooting,
Weapons	Four recovered at the school: Bushmaster XM-15 rifle 10mm Glock handgun 9mm SIG Sauer handgun shotgun found in the car Lanza drove to the site
Deaths	28 (including the perpetrator and his mother, who was killed at home)
Injured	2
Perpetrator	Adam Peter Lanza

On December 14, 2012, a person identified by authorities as Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Connecticut. He killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at their nearby Newtown home before driving to the school. After shooting the students and employees, he committed suicide.

The total death toll was 28, including the perpetrator. Two adults were treated for injuries. The massacre was the second-deadliest school shooting in United States history, after the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, and the second-deadliest mass murder at an American elementary school, after the Bath School bombings of 1927.

Background

As of November 30, 2012, the school had a total of 456 students between kindergarten and fourth grade. According to a letter sent to parents at the beginning of the year, the school had recently upgraded its security protocol, requiring visitors to be individually admitted after visual and identification review by video monitor. The doors to the school were locked at 9:30 a.m. each day after morning arrivals.

Newtown was described by residents as being known for its "rural charm" and its family-oriented environment. Violent crime is rare in the town of 28,000 residents: there had been only one homicide in the town in the ten years prior to the school shooting.

Shootings

Some time before 9:30 a.m. on December 14, 2012, Adam Peter Lanza is believed to have fatally shot his mother Nancy Lanza, aged 52, in the face and head at their Newtown home. Investigators later found her body in her bed, wearing pajamas, with four gunshots to her head. Lanza then drove his mother's black Honda Civic to the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

At about 9:35 a.m. Lanza shot his way in through a locked glass door at the front of the school. He was wearing black military-style gear, including a vest and mask. Some of those present reported that initial shots were heard on the school intercom system, which was being used for morning announcements.

Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlach were in a meeting with several other faculty members when they heard gunshots outside the room. Hochsprung and Sherlach immediately left the room and rushed to the source of the sounds to encounter Lanza, who shot both women dead as they confronted him. Diane Day, a school therapist who was at the faculty meeting as well, reported hearing screaming, followed by more gunshots. Natalie Hammond, vice principal and lead teacher in the meeting room, pressed her body against the door to keep it closed. Lanza shot Hammond through the door in the leg and arm, for which she was later treated at Danbury Hospital.

Teacher Victoria Soto attempted to hide several children in a closet and cupboards. As Lanza entered her classroom, Soto told him that the children were in the auditorium. Several of the children then came out of their hiding place and tried to run for safety and were shot dead. Soto put herself between the shooter and her students, and he fatally shot her. Anne Marie Murphy, a teacher's aide who worked with special needs students, shielded 6-year-old Dylan Hockley with her body, trying to protect him from the bullets that killed them both. Paraprofessional Rachel D'Avino, who had been employed at the school working with a special needs student for a little more than one week, also died trying to protect her students. Six surviving children from Soto's class crawled out of the cupboards after the shooting and fled the school. They and a school bus driver took refuge at the nearby home of a retired psychologist. In a nearby first grade classroom, Lauren Rousseau, a substitute teacher since October, was shot in the face and killed. All but one of the children in her classroom were also shot dead. A 6-year-old girl was the sole survivor. Her family pastor told media that the child survived the mass shooting by playing dead and remaining still until the building grew quiet and she felt it was safe to leave. She ran from the school, covered in blood, and was reportedly the first child to escape the building. When she reached her mother, she said, "Mommy, I'm OK, but all my friends are dead." The child described the shooter as a very angry man.

Elsewhere in the building, a custodian ran through hallways, alerting classrooms. First grade teacher Kaitlyn Roig, age 29, hid 14 students in a bathroom and barricaded the door, telling them to be completely quiet to remain safe. Maryann Jacob, the library clerk for the school, first hid 18 children in a part of the library the school used for lockdown in practice drills, but on discovering that one of the doors would not lock, had the children crawl into a storage room as she barricaded the door with a filing cabinet. Two third graders, chosen as classroom helpers, were walking down the hallway to the office to deliver the morning attendance sheet when bullets started flying. Teacher Abbey Clements pulled both children into her classroom, where they hid, saving their lives. Laura Feinstein, a reading specialist at the school, gathered two students from outside her classroom and hid with them under desks after they heard gunshots. Feinstein made two calls, one to the school office and the other, unsuccessfully, to 9-1-1. After hiding with the children for approximately 40 minutes, law enforcement finally came to lead them out of the room. A 6-year-old boy gathered a group of his classmates and the children all escaped out the door when the gunman shot their teacher. Lanza remained silent when he entered their classroom and fired the weapon.

The shooting stopped between 9:46 a.m. and 9:53 a.m., after approximately 50 to 100 rounds had been fired. Lanza shot all victims multiple times, and he shot at least one victim 11 times. Most of the shooting took place in two first-grade classrooms, with fourteen deaths in one room and six in the other. The student victims were eight boys and twelve girls between six and seven years of age, and the six adults were all women who worked at the school. Lanza shot himself in the head as first responders arrived.

Response by authorities

Newtown police dispatch first requested officers on the scene at 9:35 a.m. State police received the first call at 9:41 a.m. and with Newtown police, quickly mobilized local K9 and tactical units, the bomb squad, and a state police helicopter. Police began to evacuate the locked-down school room-by-room, escorting groups of students and adults away from the school.

The school was swept for additional shooters at least four times by the police. No shots were fired by the authorities. Starting around 10:00 a.m., Danbury Hospital scrambled extra medical personnel in expectation of having to treat numerous victims, though only three wounded patients were evacuated to the hospital, where two were later declared dead. In addition, there was a fourth victim that was injured in the attack, but survived. It is currently unknown if they were treated at Danbury Hospital or a different hospital. The New York City medical examiner dispatched a portable morgue to assist with the aftermath.

Investigation

Authorities recovered a large quantity of unused ammunition at the school along with three semi-automatic firearms next to Adam Lanza: a .223 caliber Bushmaster XM-15 rifle, a 10mm Glock handgun, and a 9mm SIG Sauer handgun. A shotgun was found in the car Lanza drove to the school. At home, Lanza "had access" to three more firearms: a .45 Henry repeating rifle, a .30 Enfield rifle, and a .22 Marlin rifle, but it is not clear where these weapons were. The weapons were legally owned by Lanza's mother, who is reported to have been a gun enthusiast. Police said Lanza used the Bushmaster rifle against most of the victims and according to the medical examiner, all victims were shot multiple times with the same "long weapon". At age 20 Lanza was too young to legally own or carry handguns under Connecticut law.

Investigators "are not believed to have found" a suicide note or any messages referring to the planning of the attack. Janet Robinson, the school superintendent, said she had found no connection between Lanza's mother and the school, in contrast to initial accounts from the authorities that stated she had worked there.

Police also investigated whether Lanza was the person who had been in a reported "altercation" with four staff members at Sandy Hook School the day before the massacre. It was presumed that he killed two of the four staff members involved in the altercation (the principal and the psychologist) and wounded the third (the vice-principal) in the attack; the fourth staff member was not at the school that day. Lt. J. Paul Vance of the Connecticut State Police later stated in a news conference that he knew of no reports about Lanza's involvement in any altercations at the school.

At the time of the shooting, Adam Lanza was carrying identification of his older brother Ryan, initially leading police sources to report the sibling as the perpetrator. Ryan Lanza voluntarily submitted to questioning by New Jersey police, Connecticut State Police, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He was not considered a suspect and was not taken into custody. Ryan Lanza said he had not been in touch with his brother since 2010.

Victims

Killed

Nancy Lanza, 52, perpetrator's mother (at home)

Rachel D'Avino, 29, teacher's aide
Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, 47, principal
Anne Marie Murphy, 52, teacher's aide
Lauren Rousseau, 30, teacher
Mary Sherlach, 56, school psychologist
Victoria Soto, 27, teacher

Charlotte Bacon, 6
Daniel Barden, 7
Olivia Engel, 6
Josephine Gay, 7
Dylan Hockley, 6
Madeline Hsu, 6
Catherine Hubbard, 6
Chase Kowalski, 7
Jesse Lewis, 6
Ana Marquez-Greene, 6
James Mattioli, 6
Grace McDonnell, 6
Emilie Parker, 6
Jack Pinto, 6
Noah Pozner, 6
Caroline Previdi, 6
Jessica Rekos, 6
Avielle Richman, 6
Benjamin Wheeler, 6
Allison Wyatt, 6

Wounded

Natalie Hammond, 40, vice principal/lead teacher
1 unnamed adult

The victims' bodies were removed from the school and formally identified during the night after the shooting. The medical examiner said that all the deaths were homicides as the result of multiple gunshot wounds. A state trooper was assigned to each of the victims' families to protect their privacy and to provide information directly to them ahead of press releases by the authorities.

Perpetrator

The gunman was 20-year-old Adam Peter Lanza, who was born on April 22, 1992, in Exeter, New Hampshire. His parents, Peter and Nancy, wed in 1981. He attended Newtown High School, where he was an honors student. An aunt of Adam's, Marsha Lanza, said Adam's mother had removed him from the Newtown public school system because she was unhappy with the school district's plans for her son. Lanza subsequently was home-schooled by his mother and earned a GED. He did not have a criminal record. Adam Lanza attended Western Connecticut State University beginning in summer 2008. He excelled in a computer class and an economics course, but not in a philosophy course.

Lanza's parents divorced in September 2009. Nancy Lanza was supported by alimony paid by her ex-husband, a corporate executive.

Lanza lived with his mother at her house in Sandy Hook, 5 miles (8 km) from the elementary school. She was a gun enthusiast and owned at least a dozen firearms. According to an acquaintance, she often took her two sons to a local shooting range. Her former sister-in-law, Marsha Lanza, said that Nancy stayed home to take care of Adam. Marsha Lanza also recalled that Nancy was a survivalist, who had turned her home into "a fortress" in which she was stockpiling guns and food to prepare for a possible apocalyptic event associated with some possible future collapse of the economy.

Two days before the massacre, Adam Lanza went to a sporting goods store in Danbury, Connecticut, and tried to buy a rifle. He was turned down because he did not want to undergo a background check or abide by the state's waiting period for gun sales.

Students and teachers who knew him in high school described Lanza as "intelligent, but nervous and fidgety", saying he normally avoided attention. A bus driver who drove the Lanza brothers to and from school recalled them as "really nice boys, well-behaved". According to former classmates of Adam Lanza, he was socially uncomfortable; he is not known to have had any close friends in school. The Telegraph described Lanza as "keen on computers and video games, and part of a group who would meet up for computer programming get-togethers". He was also described by a former classmate as "one of the goths".

A local psychologist, Jeannie Pasacreta, whose son was in Adam Lanza's graduating class, said she recalled a loner who did not display unusual behavior, but she said when individuals suffer "mental health problems in a quiet compliant way, people don't pay attention". Lanza's brother told law enforcement that Adam was believed to suffer from a personality disorder and was "somewhat autistic". A law enforcement official and friends of Nancy Lanza reported that Adam had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. Several medical experts have stated that there is no link between the shooting and either Asperger's or autism in general.

Reactions

President Obama's remarks on the day of the shooting

President Barack Obama gave a televised address at 3:16 p.m. EST on the day of the shootings, saying, "We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics." Obama paused twice during the address to compose himself and wipe away tears, and expressed "enormous sympathy for families that are affected". He also ordered flags to be flown at half-mast at the White House and other US federal government facilities worldwide in respect for the victims. Obama attended and spoke at an interfaith vigil on December 16, in Newtown after meeting with the victim's families. In his speech, Obama called for a renewed push for a better America, using "whatever power this office holds", to prevent similar tragedies in the future. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Joe Lieberman called for an assault rifle ban, with Feinstein intending to introduce a ban bill on the first day of the new Congress. Within 15 hours of the massacre, 100,000 Americans signed up at the Obama administration's We the People petitioning website in support of a renewed national debate on gun control. Gun rights activists declined to comment, with all but one choosing not to appear on talk shows the first Sunday after the shootings.

Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy addressed the media the evening of the shootings near a local church holding a vigil for the victims, urging the people of Connecticut to come together and help each other. Malloy said, "Evil visited this community today, and it is too early to speak of recovery, but each parent, each sibling, each member of the family has to understand that Connecticut, we are all in this together, we will do whatever we can to overcome this event, we will get through it." Hundreds of mourners, including Governor Malloy, attended vigils in various churches in Newtown. On December 17, Governor Malloy called for a statewide moment of silence and church bells to be tolled 26 times at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, December 21.

US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said "...our thanks go out to every teacher, staff member, and first responder who cared for, comforted, and protected children from harm, often at risk to themselves. We will do everything in our power to assist and support the healing and recovery of Newtown."

The day after the shootings, Adam Lanza's family released a statement, saying

Our hearts go out to the families and friends who lost loved ones and to all those who were injured. Our family is grieving along with all those who have been affected by this enormous tragedy. No words can truly express how heartbroken we are. We are in a state of disbelief and trying to find whatever answers we can. We too are asking why. We have cooperated fully with law enforcement and will continue to do so. Like so many of you, we are saddened, but struggling to make sense of what has transpired.

The school was closed indefinitely following the shooting, partially because it remains a crime scene. The nearby town of Monroe invited the surviving students and staff to attend school at their Chalk Hill Middle School. A portion of Chalk Hill is used for other functions, but the remainder is available.

On December 16, 2012, Connecticut State Police indicated their concern about misinformation being posted on social media sites and threatened prosecution of anyone involved with such activities.

Leaders from many countries and organizations throughout the world also offered their condolences through the weekend after the shooting.

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