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On December 14, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrator, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people. 20 of the victims were children between six and seven years old, and the other six were adult staff members. Earlier that day, before driving to the school ...
Bristol, Connecticut police killings. On October 12, 2022, two police officers of the Bristol Police Department were shot and killed while responding to a domestic dispute in Bristol, Connecticut. Nicholas Brutcher made a fake 911 call requesting the police and ambushed the three responding officers, Sergeant Dustin DeMonte, Officer Alex Hamzy ...
Cheshire murders. On July 23, 2007, two home intruders entered the home of the Petit family in Cheshire, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrators Linda Hayes (known as Steven Hayes at the time) [b] and Joshua Andrew Komisarjevsky initially planned only to burgle the house, but went on to murder Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, 17 ...
DAVE COLLINS. June 27, 2024 at 1:39 PM. A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday stopped an effort by the parents of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to begin collecting on ...
Known for. Defender during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Awards. Presidential Citizen's Medal (2013; awarded posthumously) Victoria Leigh Soto (November 4, 1985 – December 14, 2012) was an American teacher who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. After the gunman, Adam Lanza, entered the school, she hid her ...
Connecticut's most wide-ranging gun control measure since the 2013 law enacted after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting takes effect Sunday, with proponents vowing to pursue more gun ...
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut. The perpetrator, Adam Lanza, fatally shot his mother before murdering 20 students and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and later committed suicide. [1] A number of fringe figures have promoted conspiracy theories that doubt or ...
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, multiple gun laws were proposed in the United States at the federal and state levels. The shooting renewed debate about gun control. The debates focused on requiring background checks on all firearm sales (called universal background checks), and on passing new and expanded assault weapon and ...