The rampage, coming less than two weeks before Christmas, was the nation’s second-deadliest school shooting, exceeded only by the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, in which a gunman killed 32 people and then himself. The school psychologist was also among those who died. Moments later, the principal was shot dead when she went to investigate the sound of gunshots. Lanza in because she recognized him, his mother did not work at the school, and he shot his way in, defeating a security system requiring visitors to be buzzed in. She apparently owned the guns he used.Īlthough reports at the time indicated that the principal of the school let Mr. Lanza’s mother, Nancy Lanza, who was initially reported to be a teacher at the school.
That victim, one law enforcement official said, was Mr. The children killed were said to be 5 to 10 years old.Ī 28th person, found dead in a house in the town, was also believed to have been shot by Mr. By then, all of the victims had been shot and most were dead, and the gunman, identified as Adam Lanza, had committed suicide. Hundreds of terrified parents arrived as their sobbing children were led out of the Sandy Hook Elementary School in a wooded corner of Newtown, Conn. Witnesses and officials described a horrific scene as the gunman, with brutal efficiency, chose his victims in two classrooms while other students dove under desks and hid in closets.
A 20-year-old man wearing combat gear and armed with semiautomatic pistols and a semiautomatic rifle killed 26 people - 20 of them children - in an attack in an elementary school in central Connecticut on Friday.
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