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.
Newtown is in Fairfield County, Connecticut, about 60 miles (100 km) from New York City. Doors to the school were locked at 9:30 a.m. The school's security protocols had recently been upgraded, requiring visitors to be individually admitted after visual and identification review by video monitor.
Earlier that day, before driving to the school, Lanza shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. Twenty of the victims were children between six and seven years old, and six were adult staff members. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people. Wrongful death lawsuit against Remington Arms settled for $73 million 22LR Savage Mark II bolt-action rifle Ģ8 (27 at the school, including the perpetrator and the perpetrator's mother at home) Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit organization founded by the parents of victims, reacted to the Texas news on Twitter: "We are devastated about reports that multiple people are dead, including children. The Newtown gunman shot and killed his mother before he drove to Sandy Hook. In a grim parallel, two senior law enforcement officials told NBC News they were investigating whether the Texas suspect shot his grandmother before the incident.
14, 2012, the day a 20-year-old gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The killings at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, a town about 85 miles west of San Antonio, recall the agony of other tragedies, such as the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, in 1999 and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.īut the violence stirs especially painful memories of Dec. history, an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, killing at least 19 students and two teachers, authorities said. Nearly 10 years after the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, one of the most horrific mass shootings in U.S.