Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
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
Date	December 14, 2012 (2012-12-14) 9:35 – 9:40 a.m. EST (UTC−05:00)
Attack type	School shooting, murder–suicide, matricide, spree shooting
Weapon(s)	Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle Glock 20SF handgun
Deaths	28 (27 at the school including the perpetrator, and the perpetrator's mother at home)
Injured	2
Perpetrator	Adam Lanza

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

Adam Lanza
Born	Adam Peter Lanza (1992-04-22)April 22, 1992 Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.
Died	December 14, 2012(2012-12-14) (aged 20) Newtown, Connecticut, U.S.
Motive	Unknown

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

See also: Sandy Hook memorial

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

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting Media

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  Red circle: Sandy Hook Elementary School

  Black circle: Lanza household
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  Floorplan of Sandy Hook Elementary; Classrooms 8 (Rousseau/D'Avino), 10 (Soto/Murphy) and 12 (Roig) are labeled along with the main office (o) and Conference Room 9 (Hochsprung/Sherlach/Hammond)

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  The Bushmaster XM15 rifle, along with three magazines, on the floor of Classroom 10. Two of them are taped together "jungle style" in the upper left corner.

• Obama's address in reaction to the shooting

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  A makeshift memorial on Berkshire Road in Sandy Hook

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  Roses featuring images of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

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  Sandy Hook Memorial in the woods behind Sandy Hook Elementary School