Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Police at the scene of the shooting
Location	Sandy Hook Elementary School Newtown, Connecticut, U.S.
Coordinates	41°25′12″N 73°16′43″W / 41.42000°N 73.27861°W / 41.42000; -73.27861
Date	December 14, 2012; 12 years ago (2012-12-14) 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
Weapons	Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle Glock 20SF handgun
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] A few others were injured.

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]

• Nancy Lanza, 51, (his mother; shot four times in the head)
• Rachel D'Avino, 29, (teacher's aide)
• Dawn Hochsprung, 47, (principal)
• Anne Marie Murphy, 52, (teacher's aide)
• Lauren Rousseau, 30, (teacher)
• Mary Sherlach, 56, (school psychologist)
• Victoria Leigh Soto, 27, (teacher)
• Charlotte Bacon, 6 (student)
• Daniel Barden, 7 (student)
• Olivia Engel, 6 (student)
• Josephine Gay, 7 (student)
• Dylan Hockley, 6 (student)
• Madeleine Hsu, 6 (student)
• Catherine Hubbard, 6 (student)
• Chase Kowalski, 7 (student)
• Jesse Lewis, 6 (student)
• Ana Márquez-Greene, 6 (student)
• James Mattioli, 6 (student)
• Grace McDonnell, 7 (student)
• Emilie Parker, 6 (student)
• Jack Pinto, 6 (student)
• Noah Pozner, 6 (student)
• Caroline Previdi, 6 (student)
• Jessica Rekos, 6 (student)
• Avielle Richman, 6 (student)
• Benjamin Wheeler, 6 (student)
• Allison Wyatt, 6 (student)

• Natalie Hammond, 40, (lead teacher)
• Deborah Pisani

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