On December 14, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrator, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people. The victims were 20 children between six …

Nov 25, 2013 · The front entrance to Sandy Hook Elementary School after the massacre on Dec. 14, 2012. (Credit: Danbury State's Attorney)

Dec 11, 2013 · On December 14, 2012, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Adam Lanza kills 20 first graders and six school employees before turning a gun on himself. Earlier that day, he...

Feb 15, 2013 · Adam Lanza shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School by blowing holes in the school's front door. But had that door been something more sophisticated and more secure, might Lanza at...

Dec 27, 2013 · A discarded handgun lays in the doorway of classroom 10, where Adam Lanza's deadly rampage in Sandy Hook elementary school finally came to an end. The photo was part of several images and...

At approximately 9:35 a.m. on December 14, 2012, a lone gunman parked his vehicle in the fire lane in front of the Sandy Hook Elementary School, located at 12 Dickenson Drive in Newtown, CT. Armed with a semi-automatic rifle and two pistols, he shot out one of the front lobby windows and entered the school, bypassing the locked front doors.

Dec 12, 2017 · When a gunman in the Rancho Tehama Reserve killed four people and targeted an elementary school, he was thwarted from getting into the school after staff initiated a lockdown, authorities said.

Jul 30, 2016 · Three and a half years after a shooter opened fire inside Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 20 students and six staff members, a new school building with heightened security will welcome...

Feb 6, 2015 · At first glance the design - featuring a gently curving front facade with three "fingers" of classrooms extending into the natural landscape behind the building - does not betray the sad history...

events leading to the school shootings unfolded. On Friday morning, as Lanza turned left, toward the first-grade classrooms, Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Scherlach, shocked by the sounds of gunfire and shattering glass, bolted into a corridor from a conference room across the hall from the classrooms. He shot them both with the rifle.