Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting: 2012 school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, United States
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a school shooting that happened in Connecticut, United States on December 14, 2012.
Twenty-eight people were killed in the shooting, including many children and teachers and the perpetrator's mother at home.
| Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting | |
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 Police at the scene of the shooting | |
| Location | Sandy Hook Elementary School Newtown, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 41°25′12″N 73°16′43″W / 41.42000°N 73.27861°W |
| Date | December 14, 2012 9:35 – 9:40 a.m. EST (UTC−05:00) |
| Target | Students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School |
Attack type | School shooting, murder–suicide, matricide, spree shooting |
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| Deaths | 28 (27 at the school including the perpetrator, and the perpetrator's mother at home) |
Injured | 2 |
| Perpetrator | Adam Lanza |
| Motive | Inconclusive |
Shooter
Adam Lanza | |
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| Born | Adam Peter Lanza April 22, 1992 Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S. |
| Died | December 14, 2012 (aged 20) Newtown, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Suicide by gunshot |
| Motive | Unknown |
| Details | |
| Date | December 14, 2012 |
| Location(s) | Newtown, Connecticut |
| Target(s) | Mother, students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School |
| Killed | 27 |
| Injured | 2 |
The shooter was Adam Lanza. He shot and killed his mother. He then went to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed twenty children and six staff members as well as injuring two others. He committed suicide before he could be arrested by the Connecticut State Police.
Known victims
Fatalities
- Nancy Lanza, 52, (his mother; shot four times in the head)
- Rachel D'Avino, 29, (teacher's aide)
- Dawn Hochsprung, 47, (principal)
- Anne Marie Murphy, 52, (teacher's aide)
- Lauren Rousseau, 30, (teacher)
- Mary Sherlach, 56, (school psychologist)
- Victoria Leigh Soto, 27, (teacher)
- Charlotte Bacon, 6 (student)
- Daniel Barden, 7 (student)
- Olivia Engel, 6 (student)
- Josephine Gay, 7 (student)
- Dylan Hockley, 6 (student)
- Madeleine Hsu, 6 (student)
- Catherine Hubbard, 6 (student)
- Chase Kowalski, 7 (student)
- Jesse Lewis, 6 (student)
- Ana Márquez-Greene, 6 (student)
- James Mattioli, 6 (student)
- Grace McDonnell, 7 (student)
- Emilie Parker, 6 (student)
- Jack Pinto, 6 (student)
- Noah Pozner, 6 (student)
- Caroline Previdi, 6 (student)
- Jessica Rekos, 6 (student)
- Avielle Richman, 6 (student)
- Benjamin Wheeler, 6 (student)
- Allison Wyatt, 6 (student)
Wounded
- Natalie Hammond, 40, (lead teacher)
- Deborah Pisan
References
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