Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

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. A few others were injured.

Shooter

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.

 Victims 

 Fatalities 

 Nancy Lanza, 51, (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 Pisani

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