Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

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The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a mass shooting and murder–suicide that occurred on December 14, 2012, at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 26 people—20 first-grade children and six staff members—before killing himself. Lanza had earlier fatally shot his mother at their home before driving to the school, where he forced entry by shooting out a window near the locked front entrance. He was armed with a semi-automatic rifle and two handguns and killed the victims within about five minutes, before shooting himself as police arrived. It is the deadliest mass shooting at a K–12 school in U.S. history and the fourth-deadliest mass shooting by a single perpetrator in the nation. A November 2013 report issued by the Connecticut State Attorney's office stated that Lanza acted alone and planned his actions, but provided no indication of why he did so, or why he targeted the school. A report issued by the Office of the Child Advocate...

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