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The nearby town of [[Monroe, Connecticut|Monroe]] invited the surviving students and staff to attend school at their [[Chalk Hill Middle School]]. A portion of Chalk Hill is used for other functions, but the remainder is available.<ref name="reuters chalk hill" /><ref name="newstimes chalk hill" />
The nearby town of [[Monroe, Connecticut|Monroe]] invited the surviving students and staff to attend school at their [[Chalk Hill Middle School]]. A portion of Chalk Hill is used for other functions, but the remainder is available.<ref name="reuters chalk hill" /><ref name="newstimes chalk hill" />


Senator [[Dianne Feinstein]] said she plans to introduce an [[assault weapon]]s ban bill on the first day of the [[113th United States Congress|new session of Congress]].<ref name="Dianne Feinstein To Introduce Assault Weapons Ban On First Day Of Congress"/>
Sen. [[Dianne Feinstein]] said she plans to introduce an [[assault weapon]]s ban bill on the first day of the new Congress.<ref name="Dianne Feinstein To Introduce Assault Weapons Ban On First Day Of Congress"/> Critics of this move call it purely political, citing a continuous decline in crime rates nationwide following the previous assault weapons ban's expiration.<ref>http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jun/28/opinion/oe-lott28</ref>


On December 16, 2012, Connecticut State Police decried misinformation being posted on social media sites and threatened prosecution for those people for interfering with the investigation.<ref name="Lt. Paul Vance: Misinformation Is Being Posted on Social Media Sites"/>
On December 16, 2012, Connecticut State Police decried misinformation being posted on social media sites and threatened prosecution for those people for interfering with the investigation.<ref name="Lt. Paul Vance: Misinformation Is Being Posted on Social Media Sites"/>

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Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
Location of Newtown
within Fairfield County and Connecticut
LocationNewtown, Connecticut, U.S.
Coordinates41°25′12″N 73°16′43″W / 41.42000°N 73.27861°W / 41.42000; -73.27861[1]
DateDecember 14, 2012 (2012-12-14)
approximately 9:35 a.m. to 9:56 a.m. (EST)
TargetStudents and staff at
Sandy Hook School
Attack type
School shooting, murder–suicide, matricide, spree shooting, mass murder
WeaponsFour recovered at the school:[2][3]
  • .223 semi-automatic rifle
  • 10mm Glock handgun
  • 9mm SIG Sauer handgun
  • a shotgun found in the car Lanza drove to the site
    • Deaths28[4][5] (including perpetrator)
    Injured1[6]
    PerpetratorAdam Peter Lanza[7][8]

    On December 14, 2012, a gunman killed twenty children and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Connecticut, before committing suicide. It was the second-deadliest mass shooting in United States history, after the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre,[9] and the second-deadliest attack at an American school of compulsory education, after the Bath School disaster of 1927.[10]

    The gunman, identified by authorities as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, had first killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at their nearby Newtown home. He then drove to the school and shot the students and employees before killing himself. The total death toll was twenty-eight, including the perpetrator.[7][11][12]

    Background

    As of November 30, 2012, the school had a total of 456 students between kindergarten and fourth grade.[13] According to a letter sent to parents at the beginning of the year, the school had recently upgraded its security protocol, requiring visitors to be individually admitted after visual and identification review over a video monitor. The doors to the school were locked at 9:30 a.m. each day after morning arrivals.[14]

    Newtown was described by residents as being known for its "rural charm" and its family-oriented environment; violent crime was rare in the town of 28,000 residents. There had been only one homicide in the town in the ten years prior to the school shooting.[15]

    Shootings

    Black: location of the gunman's house
    Red: location of the shootings

    Some time before 9:30 a.m. on December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza is believed to have fatally shot his mother Nancy Lanza (née Champion), aged 52, in the face at their Newtown home.[12] Investigators later found her body in her bed, wearing pajamas, with evidence of four gunshots to the head.[16] Adam apparently then drove his mother's car to the Sandy Hook Elementary School,[11][12] where he forced his way into the building[17][18] wearing black military-style gear, including a bullet-proof vest and mask.[19][20]

    Lanza started shooting at about 9:35 a.m., approximately half an hour after the school day began.[21] Some of those present reported that initial shots were heard on the school's intercom system, which was being used for morning announcements.[22] Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlach were in a meeting with several other faculty members when gun shots were heard from outside the room.[23] Hochsprung and Sherlach immediately left the room and rushed to the source of the sounds.[24] Diane Day, a school therapist, who was present in the meeting, reported hearing screaming followed by more gun shots.[24] Natalie Hammond, the vice principal and lead teacher who was also present in the faculty meeting, pressed her body against the door to keep it closed.[24][25] Hammond was shot from the other side of the door in the leg and arm and later treated at Danbury Hospital.[24][25] Hochsprung and Sherlach were fatally shot in the hallway nearby.[23]

    Teacher Victoria Soto attempted to hide several children in the closet and cupboards.[23][26][27] Lanza entered Soto's room, whereupon Soto put herself between him and her students, and was fatally shot in the process.[23][27] Lauren Rousseau, a substitute teacher since October, was reported to have been shot in the face and killed.[28] Anne Marie Murphy's body was found in her classroom amongst the bodies of her students in a shielding position.[28]

    Elsewhere in the building, the custodian ran through the hallways, alerting classrooms in person.[29] First grade teacher Kaitlyn Roig, age 29, hid fourteen students in a bathroom and barricaded the door, telling them to be completely quiet in order to keep them safe.[30][31] Maryann Jacob, the school's library clerk, instructed eighteen children to crawl into a storage room, then barricaded the door using a filing cabinet.[32] Laura Feinstein, a reading specialist at the school, gathered two students from outside her classroom and together they hid under desks after gun shots were heard.[33] Feinstein made two calls, one to the school office and the other, unsuccessfully, to 9-1-1. After approximately forty minutes, they were led out of the room.[34]

    Lanza stopped shooting between 9:46 a.m. and 9:53 a.m. after firing approximately fifty to one hundred shots.[35] All victims were shot multiple times and at least one victim was shot eleven times.[36] Most of the shooting took place in two first-grade classrooms, with fourteen killed in one room and six in the other. The children killed were six and seven years old; there were eight boys and twelve girls.[37] The six adults were all women who worked at the school. A total of twenty-eight people were fatally shot that morning, including Lanza who shot himself in the head as first responders arrived at the school.[38][39][40][41]

    Response by authorities

    State police received the first 9-1-1 call at 9:41 a.m.[30] and with Newtown police, quickly mobilized local K9 and tactical units, the bomb squad, and a state police helicopter.[42] Police began to evacuate the locked-down school room-by-room, escorting groups of students and adults away from the school.[42] The school was swept for additional shooters at least four times by the police.[42] No shots were fired by the authorities.[42] Starting around 10:00 a.m., the Danbury Hospital scrambled extra medical personnel in expectation of having to treat numerous victims, though only three wounded patients were evacuated to the hospital, where two were later declared dead.[42][43] The New York City medical examiner dispatched a portable morgue to assist with the aftermath.[22]

    Reports of a second gunman have neither been confirmed or denied. A witness tells WFSB-TV that a second man was taken out of the woods in handcuffs wearing a black jacket and camouflage pants and telling parents on the scene, ‘I did not do it.’ [44]

    Investigation

    Bushmaster AR-15 (with magazines); a semi-automatic rifle similar to the primary weapon used in the shooting.[45]

    Investigators did not find a suicide note or any messages referring to the planning of the attack. Janet Robinson, the school superintendent, said she had found no connection between Lanza's mother and the school, in contrast to initial accounts from authorities that she had worked there.[46] Police also investigated whether Lanza was the person who had been in a reported "altercation" with four staff members at Sandy Hook School the day before the massacre. It was presumed that he killed two of such four staff members (the principal and the psychologist) and wounded the third (the vice-principal) in the attack; the fourth staff member was not at the school that day.[47] Lt. J. Paul Vance of the Connecticut State Police noted in a news conference later that he knew of no reports about Lanza's being involved in any altercations at the school.[48]

    Weapons

    Authorities recovered three semi-automatic firearms next to Adam Lanza: a .223-caliber Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, a 10mm Glock handgun,[3] and a 9mm SIG Sauer handgun.[2][49][50][51] A shotgun was found in the car Lanza drove to the school.[3] At home, Lanza "had access"[51] to three more firearms: a .45 Henry repeating rifle, a .30 Enfield rifle, and a .22 Marlin rifle, but it is unclear as to where these weapons were located.[9][45] The weapons were legally owned by Lanza's mother, who is reported to have been a gun enthusiast.[49][52] Authorities found a very large quantity of unused ammunition at the school.[53] On December 16, Police say Lanza used the rifle against most of the victims.[54] According to the medical examiner, all victims were shot with the same "long weapon" and were hit multiple times.[55] Adam Lanza was too young to legally own or carry handguns under Connecticut law.[56][57][58][59]

    Victims

    Killed[60][61]
    • Nancy Lanza, 52, perpetrator's mother
    • Rachel Davino, 29, teacher
    • Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, 47, principal
    • Anne Marie Murphy, 52, teacher
    • Lauren Rousseau, 30, teacher
    • Mary Sherlach, 56, school psychologist
    • Victoria Soto, 27, teacher
    • Charlotte Bacon, 6
    • Daniel Barden, 7
    • Olivia Engel, 6
    • Josephine Gay, 7
    • Dylan Hockley, 6
    • Madeline F. Hsu, 6
    • Catherine Violet Hubbard, 6
    • Chase Kowalski, 7
    • Jesse Lewis, 6
    • Ana Marquez-Greene, 6
    • James Mattioli, 6
    • Grace McDonnell, 6
    • Emilie Parker, 6
    • Jack Pinto, 6
    • Noah Pozner, 6
    • Caroline Previdi, 6
    • Jessica Rekos, 6
    • Avielle Richman, 6
    • Benjamin Wheeler, 6
    • Allison N. Wyatt, 6
    Wounded
    • Natalie Hammond, vice principal

    The victims' bodies were removed from the school and identified during the night after the shooting.[62][63] The medical examiner said all the deaths were homicides as the result of multiple gunshot wounds.[46] A state trooper was assigned to each of the victims' families to protect their privacy and to provide information directly to them ahead of press releases by the authorities.

    Perpetrator

    The gunman was 20-year-old Adam Peter Lanza, who was born on April 22, 1992, in Kingston, New Hampshire, where his parents had been married in 1981.[64] He attended Newtown High School, where he had been an honors student.[65] An aunt of his said his mother removed him from the Newtown public school system because she was unhappy with the school district's plans for her son.[66] He had no criminal record.[7][67][68]

    Lanza's parents divorced in September 2009,[69] and Adam and his mother were supported by alimony paid by his father, a corporate executive.[70][71][72] Lanza lived with his mother Nancy at her house in Sandy Hook, located 5 miles (8 km) from the elementary school.[73] She was a gun enthusiast who had taught her two sons to shoot and often took them to a local range. According to her former sister-in-law, Marsha Lanza, Nancy stayed home to take care of Adam. Marsha Lanza also recalled that Nancy was a survivalist and that Nancy had turned her home into "a fortress" in which she was stockpiling guns and food to prepare to defend her family in the event of the economy collapsing.[74][75] She had withdrawn Adam from school after "battling" with them over their unspecified "plans" for him.[70][74]

    Two days before the massacre, Lanza went to a sporting goods store in Danbury, Connecticut, and tried to buy a rifle. He was turned down because he did not want to undergo a background check or abide by the state's waiting period for gun sales.[76]

    At the time of the shooting, Adam Lanza was carrying the identification of his older brother Ryan,[77] leading police sources to initially report the sibling as the perpetrator. Ryan Lanza voluntarily submitted to questioning by the New Jersey police, Connecticut State Police, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He was not considered a suspect and was not taken into custody.[78][79] Ryan Lanza said he had not been in touch with his brother since 2010.[80][81] He also told law enforcement that his brother was believed to suffer from a personality disorder and was "somewhat autistic".[82] An unnamed law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, reported that Adam had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.[83]

    Students and teachers who knew Adam Lanza in high school described him as "intelligent, but nervous and fidgety",[73] saying he normally avoided attention.[73] A bus driver who drove the Lanza brothers to and from school recalled them as "really nice boys, well-behaved".[84] According to former classmates of Adam Lanza's, he was socially uncomfortable; he is not known to have had any close friends in school.[73] The Telegraph described Lanza as "keen on computers and video games, and part of a group who would meet up for computer programming get-togethers".[70] He was also described by his classmates as a goth.[85]

    A local psychologist, Jeannie Pasacreta, whose son was in Adam Lanza's graduating class said she recalled a loner who did not display unusual behavior, but she said when individuals suffer "mental health problems in a quiet compliant way, people don't pay attention".[24]

    Reactions

    President Obama's remarks on the day of the shooting

    President Barack Obama gave a televised address at 3:16 p.m. EST on the day of the shootings, saying, "We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics."[86] Obama paused twice during the address to compose himself and wipe away tears, and expressed "enormous sympathy for families that are affected".[6][87][88] He also ordered flags to be flown at half-mast at the White House and other US federal government facilities worldwide in respect for the victims.[89] Within 15 hours of the massacre, 100,000 Americans signed up at the Obama administration's We the People petitioning website in support of a renewed national debate on gun control.[90] Obama is scheduled to attend an interfaith vigil on Sunday, December 16, at 7:00 p.m. in Newtown.[91]

    Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy addressed the media the evening of the shootings near a local church holding a vigil for the victims, urging the people of Connecticut to come together and help each other. Malloy said, "Evil visited this community today, and it is too early to speak of recovery, but each parent, each sibling, each member of the family has to understand that Connecticut, we are all in this together, we will do whatever we can to overcome this event, we will get through it."[15][92][93] Hundreds of mourners, including Governor Malloy, attended vigils in various churches in Newtown.[94][95] United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said "...our thanks go out to every teacher, staff member, and first responder who cared for, comforted, and protected children from harm, often at risk to themselves. We will do everything in our power to assist and support the healing and recovery of Newtown."[96] World leaders expressed "shock and horror" over the events that took place.[97]

    The day after the shootings, Adam Lanza's family released a statement, saying

    Our hearts go out to the families and friends who lost loved ones and to all those who were injured. Our family is grieving along with all those who have been affected by this enormous tragedy. No words can truly express how heartbroken we are. We are in a state of disbelief and trying to find whatever answers we can. We too are asking why. We have cooperated fully with law enforcement and will continue to do so. Like so many of you, we are saddened, but struggling to make sense of what has transpired.[72]

    The nearby town of Monroe invited the surviving students and staff to attend school at their Chalk Hill Middle School. A portion of Chalk Hill is used for other functions, but the remainder is available.[98][99]

    Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she plans to introduce an assault weapons ban bill on the first day of the new Congress.[100] Critics of this move call it purely political, citing a continuous decline in crime rates nationwide following the previous assault weapons ban's expiration.[101]

    On December 16, 2012, Connecticut State Police decried misinformation being posted on social media sites and threatened prosecution for those people for interfering with the investigation.[102]

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