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   Newtown shootings of 2012, also called Sandy Hook School   
   shooting, mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14,   
   2012, that left 28 people dead and 2 injured. In addition to the   
   shooter, 18 children and 6 adults died at Sandy Hook School and   
   2 children died at a nearby hospital, making it one of the   
   deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.   
      
   The attack began when 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother,   
   Nancy Lanza, in the home that the two shared in Newtown. She was   
   shot four times with a .22-calibre rifle. She had purchased the   
   rifle, as well as an AR-15—the civilian semiautomatic version of   
   the military M16 assault rifle—and several other firearms that   
   Adam Lanza would use later that day, in the years prior to the   
   shooting. Before leaving the house, Lanza destroyed his   
   computer’s hard drive, an act that would make evidence gathering   
   difficult for law-enforcement personnel.   
      
   The Shootings At Sandy Hook School   
   Adam Lanza gathered the AR-15, two semiautomatic pistols, and a   
   shotgun, as well as several hundred rounds of ammunition, and   
   drove his mother’s car to Sandy Hook School, a public elementary   
   school in Newtown for kindergarten through fourth grade. Leaving   
   the shotgun in the car, Lanza shot his way through a window next   
   to the school’s locked security door just after 9:30 AM. He was   
   immediately confronted by Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung   
   and school psychologist Mary Sherlach. Lanza shot and killed   
   both women, but the encounter and the sounds of gunfire were   
   broadcast to individual classrooms via the school’s public-   
   address system. In accordance with previously established   
   lockdown protocols, teachers immediately took steps to attempt   
   to safeguard their students, concealing them in closets or   
   bathrooms and barricading doors with furniture or with their own   
   bodies.   
      
   Lanza entered the classroom of teacher Lauren Rousseau and   
   killed her and 14 children. He then went to a second classroom,   
   where first-grade teacher Victoria Soto had hidden her students   
   in a closet. She attempted to misdirect Lanza by telling him   
   that her class was in the school’s auditorium on the other side   
   of the building. Lanza killed Soto, as well as six students who   
   attempted to flee from their hiding place. Also killed in the   
   shooting were Anne Marie Murphy, a special education aide, and   
   behavioral therapist Rachel D’Avino; two other Sandy Hook staff   
   members were injured.   
      
   The first emergency call from the school was received at about   
   9:35 AM, and law-enforcement personnel responded within minutes.   
   The first officers to enter the building caught a glimpse of an   
   individual dressed in dark clothing, and, after hearing a series   
   of shots, they found Lanza near the door to Soto’s classroom,   
   dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. As the scale of the   
   attack became clear, dozens of state and local police officers   
   descended on the school, which police officials said would   
   remain closed as a crime scene “indefinitely.” Investigators   
   determined that Lanza had used the AR-15 as his primary weapon   
   throughout the attack, though he had taken his own life with a   
   handgun.   
      
   The Aftermath   
   In the days following the shootings, medical examinations of the   
   victims revealed that each had been shot multiple times. While   
   police attempted to uncover a motive for the attack, the scale   
   of the massacre, compounded by the age of the victims—the   
   majority of whom were six or seven years old—sparked a renewed   
   debate about Second Amendment rights. Proponents of gun control   
   focused particular attention on the AR-15 that Lanza had used,   
   as well as the 30-round ammunition magazines he had carried.   
   Some semiautomatic assault rifles and large-capacity magazines   
   had been banned under legislation passed by the U.S. Congress in   
   1994, but that law was allowed to lapse in 2004. Legislators   
   pledged to reintroduce it in the wake of the Newtown shootings,   
   and Pres. Barack Obama stated that he would use all the powers   
   of his office to prevent future mass shootings. The National   
   Rifle Association responded by advocating the introduction of   
   armed guards into all American schools. More than one-fifth of   
   public and private schools in the U.S. already employed police   
   or other armed security personnel.   
      
   https://www.britannica.com/event/Newtown-shootings-of-2012   
             
      
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