Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting | |
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Police at the scene of the shooting
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Location | Sandy Hook Elementary School Newtown, Connecticut, U.S. |
Coordinates | 41°25′12″N 73°16′43″W / 41.42000°N 73.27861°W |
Date | December 14, 2012 9:35 – 9:40 a.m. EST (UTC−05:00) |
Target | Students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School |
Attack type | School shooting, murder–suicide, matricide, spree shooting |
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Deaths | 28 (27 at the school including the perpetrator, and the perpetrator's mother at home) |
Injured | 2 |
Perpetrator | Adam Lanza[1] |
Motive | Inconclusive[2][3] |
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a school shooting that happened in Connecticut, United States on December 14, 2012. Twenty-eight people were killed in the shooting, including many children and teachers and the perpetrator's mother at home.[4]
Adam Lanza | |
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Born | Adam Peter Lanza April 22, 1992 Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S. |
Died | December 14, 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 20)
Cause of death | Suicide by gunshot |
Motive | Unknown |
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Date | December 14, 2012 |
Location(s) | Newtown, Connecticut |
Target(s) | Mother, students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School |
Killed | 27 |
Injured | 2 |
The shooter was Adam Lanza. He shot and killed his mother. He then went to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed twenty children and six staff members as well as injuring two others. He committed suicide before he could be arrested by the Connecticut State Police.[1]
See also: Sandy Hook memorial |