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Newtown shootings of 2012, also called Sandy Hook School 
shooting, mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 
2012, that left 28 people dead and 2 injured. In addition to the 
shooter, 18 children and 6 adults died at Sandy Hook School and 
2 children died at a nearby hospital, making it one of the 
deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.

The attack began when 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, 
Nancy Lanza, in the home that the two shared in Newtown. She was 
shot four times with a .22-calibre rifle. She had purchased the 
rifle, as well as an AR-15—the civilian semiautomatic version of 
the military M16 assault rifle—and several other firearms that 
Adam Lanza would use later that day, in the years prior to the 
shooting. Before leaving the house, Lanza destroyed his 
computer’s hard drive, an act that would make evidence gathering 
difficult for law-enforcement personnel.

The Shootings At Sandy Hook School
Adam Lanza gathered the AR-15, two semiautomatic pistols, and a 
shotgun, as well as several hundred rounds of ammunition, and 
drove his mother’s car to Sandy Hook School, a public elementary 
school in Newtown for kindergarten through fourth grade. Leaving 
the shotgun in the car, Lanza shot his way through a window next 
to the school’s locked security door just after 9:30 AM. He was 
immediately confronted by Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung 
and school psychologist Mary Sherlach. Lanza shot and killed 
both women, but the encounter and the sounds of gunfire were 
broadcast to individual classrooms via the school’s public-
address system. In accordance with previously established 
lockdown protocols, teachers immediately took steps to attempt 
to safeguard their students, concealing them in closets or 
bathrooms and barricading doors with furniture or with their own 
bodies.

Lanza entered the classroom of teacher Lauren Rousseau and 
killed her and 14 children. He then went to a second classroom, 
where first-grade teacher Victoria Soto had hidden her students 
in a closet. She attempted to misdirect Lanza by telling him 
that her class was in the school’s auditorium on the other side 
of the building. Lanza killed Soto, as well as six students who 
attempted to flee from their hiding place. Also killed in the 
shooting were Anne Marie Murphy, a special education aide, and 
behavioral therapist Rachel D’Avino; two other Sandy Hook staff 
members were injured.

The first emergency call from the school was received at about 
9:35 AM, and law-enforcement personnel responded within minutes. 
The first officers to enter the building caught a glimpse of an 
individual dressed in dark clothing, and, after hearing a series 
of shots, they found Lanza near the door to Soto’s classroom, 
dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. As the scale of the 
attack became clear, dozens of state and local police officers 
descended on the school, which police officials said would 
remain closed as a crime scene “indefinitely.” Investigators 
determined that Lanza had used the AR-15 as his primary weapon 
throughout the attack, though he had taken his own life with a 
handgun.

The Aftermath
In the days following the shootings, medical examinations of the 
victims revealed that each had been shot multiple times. While 
police attempted to uncover a motive for the attack, the scale 
of the massacre, compounded by the age of the victims—the 
majority of whom were six or seven years old—sparked a renewed 
debate about Second Amendment rights. Proponents of gun control 
focused particular attention on the AR-15 that Lanza had used, 
as well as the 30-round ammunition magazines he had carried. 
Some semiautomatic assault rifles and large-capacity magazines 
had been banned under legislation passed by the U.S. Congress in 
1994, but that law was allowed to lapse in 2004. Legislators 
pledged to reintroduce it in the wake of the Newtown shootings, 
and Pres. Barack Obama stated that he would use all the powers 
of his office to prevent future mass shootings. The National 
Rifle Association responded by advocating the introduction of 
armed guards into all American schools. More than one-fifth of 
public and private schools in the U.S. already employed police 
or other armed security personnel.

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