Under Connecticut law at the time, the 20-year-old Lanza was old enough to carry a long gun, such as a rifle or shotgun, but too young to own or carry handguns. Violent crime had been rare in the town of 28,000 residents there was only one homicide in the town in the ten years before the school shooting. Newtown is in Fairfield County, Connecticut, about 17 miles (30 km) from New Haven, 30 miles (50 km) from Hartford, and 60 miles (100 km) from New York City. Doors to the school were locked at 9:30 a.m. The school's security protocols had recently been upgraded, requiring visitors to be individually admitted after visual and identification review by video monitor. 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.' BackgroundĪs of November 30, 2012, 456 children were enrolled in kindergarten through fourth grade at Sandy Hook Elementary School. A report issued by the Office of the Child Advocate in November 2014 said that Lanza had Asperger syndrome and as a teenager had depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, but concluded that they had 'neither caused nor led to his murderous acts'.

The shooting prompted renewed debate about gun control in the United States, including proposals to make 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 which can hold more than ten rounds of ammunition.Ī 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. It is also the second deadliest school shooting in the U.S, and the fourth-deadliest mass shooting overall. The incident is, as of 2023, the deadliest mass shooting in Connecticut history, and the deadliest mass shooting at an elementary school in U.S. As first responders arrived at the school, Lanza died by suicide, shooting himself in the head. Earlier that day, before driving to the school, Lanza had murdered his mother at their Newtown home. Twenty of the victims were children between six and seven years old, and the other six were adult staff members. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and murdered 26 people. Wrongful death lawsuit against Remington Arms settled for $73 million

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