Newtown Mass Murder
| Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting | |
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Police at the scene of the shooting
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| Location | Sandy Hook Elementary School Newtown, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 41°25′12″N 73°16′43″W / 41.42000°N 73.27861°WCoordinates: 41°25′12″N 73°16′43″W / 41.42000°N 73.27861°W |
| Date | December 14, 2012 9:35 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.EST (UTC−05:00) |
| Target | Students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School |
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Attack type
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School shooting, murder–suicide, matricide, spree shooting |
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| Deaths | 28 total; 27 at the school (including the perpetrator) and the perpetrator's mother at home |
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Non-fatal injuries
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2 |
| Perpetrator | Adam Lanza |
| 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 | Self-inflicted gunshot wound |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Western Connecticut State University |
| Occupation | None |
| Parent(s) | Peter Lanza (father) Nancy Lanza (mother) |
| Motive | Inconclusive |
| Details | |
| Date | December 14, 2012 c. 9:35 a.m. – c. 9:40 a.m. |
| Location(s) | Newtown, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Target(s) | Students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School |
| Killed | 28 |
| Injured | 2 |
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children between six and seven years old, as well as six adult staff members. Prior to driving to the school, he shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. As first responders arrived at the scene, Lanza committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
The incident was the deadliest mass shooting at either a high school or grade school in U.S. history and the fourth-deadliest mass shooting by a single person in U.S. history. The shooting prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, including proposals for making the background-check system universal, and for new federal and state gun legislation banning the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic firearms and magazines with more than ten rounds of ammunition.
A November 2013 report issued by the Connecticut State Attorney's office concluded that Lanza acted alone and planned his actions, but provided no indication why he did so, or why he targeted the school. A report issued by the Office of the Child Advocate in November 2014 said that Lanza had Asperger's syndrome and as a teenager suffered from depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, but concluded that they had "neither caused nor led to his murderous acts." The report went on to say "his severe and deteriorating internalized mental health problems... combined with an atypical preoccupation with violence... (and) access to deadly weapons... proved a recipe for mass murder".
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