2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

A gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on the morning of December 14, 2012, and killed 20 first graders between six and seven years old along with six adult staff members before killing himself as police arrived. Police said that earlier that morning, before he reached the school, he had shot and killed a 52-year-old woman at a home in the town.

Date
2012-12-14
People killed, not counting the perpetrator (Wikipedia table)
27
What the pin marks
The school, as the cited page positions it. The table's figure includes one person killed elsewhere beforehand.
Where the position is published
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: school, connecticut, 2012

Coordinates: 41.42, -73.27861

Part of Mass shootings in the United States that killed 13 or more people since 1949

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