The Sandy Hook Primary School Shoot took place on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, USA, when 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatal shooting 20 children aged between six and seven years, as well as six adult staff members. Before driving to school, he shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. When the first respondent arrived on the scene, Lanza committed suicide by shooting his own head.
The incident was the deadliest mass shooting at high school or elementary school in US history and the fourth deadly mass shooting by a single person in US history. The shootings sparked a new debate on arms control in the United States, including proposals to make the background check system universal, and for federal and state weapons laws that prohibit the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic weapons and magazines with more than ten ammunition bullets.
The November 2013 report issued by the Connecticut State Prosecutor's office concluded that Lanza acted alone and planned his actions, but gave no indication of why he did it, or why he targeted the school. A report issued by the Office of Child Advocates in November 2014 said that Lanza had Asperger's syndrome and as a teenager suffered from depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder, but concluded that they "did not cause or cause his murderous actions." The report goes on to say "severe and deteriorating mental health problems... combined with atypical preoccupation with violence... (and) access to deadly weapons... proven recipe for mass murder".
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On November 30, 2012, 456 children were enrolled in kindergarten until fourth grade at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The school security protocol was recently upgraded, requiring visitors to be individually accepted after visual reviews and identification by video monitors. The door to the school is locked at 9:30 am every day, after the morning arrival.
Newtown is located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, about 60 miles (100 km) from New York City. Cruel crimes are rare in the city of 28,000 inhabitants; there was only one murder in the town within ten years before the school shootings.
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Events
Nancy Lanza's murder
Some time before 9:30 am EST on Friday, December 14, 2012, Lanza shot and killed his mother, 52-year-old Nancy Lanza, in their Newtown home. Researchers later found his body clad in pajamas, in his bed, with four gunshot wounds on his head. Lanza then went to Sandy Hook Elementary School in her mother's car.
Bulk shoot starts
Shortly after 9:35, using his mother's XM15-E2S Bushmaster gun, Lanza fired toward a glass panel next to a locked school entrance. She wore black clothes, yellow eyelashes, sunglasses, olive green vests, and brought magazines for rifles. A preliminary report stating that she had been wearing body armor was not right. Some of those present heard the initial shots on the school intercom system, which was used for morning announcements.
Principal Dawn Hochsprung and school psychologist Mary Sherlach met with other faculty members when they heard, but did not recognize, gunshots. Hochsprung, Sherlach, and principal teacher Natalie Hammond went to the hall to determine the source of the sound and meet Lanza. A faculty member who attended the meeting said that the three women were calling "Shooter! Stay put!" who warned their colleagues about danger and saved their lives. A maid heard a gunshot. A teacher who was hiding in the math lab heard school cleaner Rick Thorne shout, "Put down the gun!" (Thorne survived.) Lanza kills Hochsprung and Sherlach. Hammond was first hit on foot, and then suffered another gunshot wound. He lay quietly in the hallway and then, not hearing anymore voice, crawled back into the conference room and pressed his body to the door to close it. She was later admitted to Danbury Hospital.
A nine-year-old boy claimed he heard the gunman say: "Raise your hand!" and others say, "Do not shoot!" He also heard many people shouting and many shots on the intercom while he, his classmates, and his teacher took shelter in the closet at the gymnasium. Diane Day, a school therapist who had attended a faculty meeting with Hochsprung, heard shouts followed by more shots. A second teacher, who is a replacement Kindergarten teacher, was injured in the attack. As she closed the door further down the hall, she was hit in the foot with a bullet that bounced off. Lanza never enters his class.
After killing Hochsprung and Sherlach, Lanza enters the main office but apparently does not see people hiding there, and returns to the hallway. School nurse Sarah (Sally) Cox, 60, is hiding under a desk in her office. He then explains seeing the open door and Lanza boots and legs facing the table from a distance of about 20 feet (6.1 m). He stood for a few seconds before turning and leaving. She and school secretary, Barbara Halstead, call 9-1-1 and hide in the first aid kit for four hours. Supervisor Rick Thorne ran through the halls, reminiscent of the classroom.
Classroom Shot
Lanza then entered the first class where Lauren Rousseau, a substitute teacher, herded his first class to the back of the room, and tried to hide it in the bathroom, when Lanza forced her into the classroom. Rousseau, Rachel D'Avino (a behavioral therapist who had been hired for a week at school to work with special needs students), and fifteen students in the Rousseau class were all killed. Fourteen children died at the scene; one injured child was taken to the hospital for treatment, but was later declared dead. Most teachers and students are found crammed together in the bathroom. A six-year-old girl, the only survivor, was found by police in the classroom after the shootings. The surviving girl was hidden in one corner of the classroom bathroom during filming. The girl's family pastor said that she survived the mass shootings by remaining silent, and playing dead. When she reaches her mother, she says, "Mom, I'm fine, but all my friends are dead." The boy describes the shooter as "a very angry person." A girl is hiding in the bathroom with two teachers telling the police that she heard a boy in the class shouting, "Help me! I do not want to be here!" where Lanza replied, "Well, you're here," followed by a hammering sound.
Lanza went on to another first class class nearby; at this point, there are conflicting reports about the sequence of events. According to some reports, the class teacher, Victoria Leigh Soto, has hidden some students in the closet or bathroom, and several other students are hiding under the table. Soto walks back to the classroom door to lock it when Lanza enters the classroom. Lanza walked to the back of the classroom, saw the children under the table, and shot them. First year student Jesse Lewis shouted at his classmates for running for safety, and some of them did. Lewis saw Lanza when Lanza shot him fatal. Another account, given by the father of a living child, said that Soto had moved the children to the back of the classroom, and that they sat on the floor when Lanza came in. According to this account, both Lanza and the class speakers. Lanza stared at the people on the floor, pointed a gun at a boy sitting there, but did not shoot the boy, who finally survived. The boy got up and ran out of the class and was among the survivors.
The Hartford Courant report says that six of the runaway children did so when Lanza stopped firing, either because the weapon stalled or he mistakenly reloaded it. Earlier reports said that, when Lanza enters his classroom, Soto tells him that the children are in the auditorium. When some children come out of their hideout and try to escape for safety, Lanza shoots them fatal. Soto puts himself among his students and shooters, who then shoots him fatal. Anne Marie Murphy, a teacher aide working with special needs students in the Soto classroom, was found to include six-year-old Dylan Hockley, who also died. Soto and four children were found dead in the classroom, Soto near the north wall of the room with a set of keys nearby. One child was taken to the hospital, but was declared dead. Six surviving children from the classroom and the school bus driver took refuge in a nearby house. According to an official report issued by state lawyers, nine children ran from Soto's classroom and survived, while two children were found by police hiding in a classroom bathroom. In all, 11 children from the Soto class survived. Five Soto students were killed.
Survivors
First-grade teacher Kaitlin Roig, 29, hides 14 students in the bathroom and barricades the door, telling them to be completely calm to stay safe. It is believed that Lanza passed his classroom, which is a first class room on the left side of the hall; probably because, following a lockout exercise weeks earlier, Roig failed to remove a piece of black construction paper that covered a small window in the door of his classroom. Lanza may assume that the Roig classroom is empty because the door is closed and the window is closed.
School library staff Yvonne Cech and Maryann Jacob first hid 18 children in the school library section that was used to lock up the practice workout. Knowing that one door was not locked, they told the children to crawl into the storeroom, where Cech pulled the door in the filing cabinet.
Maryrose Kristopik's music teacher, 50, lined up her fourth graders in a small supply cabinet during a tantrum. Lanza arrived moments later, knocked on the door and shouted, "Let me in," while the students in the Kristopic class were secretly hiding inside.
Two third graders, selected as class maids, walked down the hall to the office to deliver the morning attendance sheet when the filming began. Teacher Abbey Clements pulls the children to his class, where they are hiding.
Laura Feinstein, a specialist reading at school, gathered two students from outside her classroom and hid with them under the table after they heard gunshots. Feinstein called the school office and tried calling 911, but could not connect, due to lack of reception on his cell phone. He was hiding with the kids for about 40 minutes, where law enforcers came to take them out of the room.
Suicide shooter
The police heard the last shot at 9:40 am; they believed that it was Lanza shooting himself in the back under his head with a 20SF Glock in the 10th grade. Lanza's body was found wearing a pale green pocket vest over a black polo shirt, on top of a black T-shirt, black shoes, black fingerless gloves , black socks, and black canvas belt. Other objects found around Lanza include a black boonie hat and thin frame glasses. Glock was found, apparently jammed, near Lanza, and the rifle was found a few meters away. The 9 mm Sauer P226 SIG, which was not fired during the incident, was found in people who fired.
Instantly
Authorities decided that Lanza often recharge during the shootings, sometimes firing just fifteen rounds of thirty round magazines. He shot all but two of his victims several times. Most of the shootings occurred in the first two classrooms near the entrance of the school. The students among the victims were eight boys and twelve girls, all aged six or seven, and six adults were all women working in school. Bullets were also found in at least three cars parked outside the school, prompting police to believe that he was firing at a teacher standing by the window. When the police interviewed the survivors, a teacher remembered hearing Lanza cursing several times, saying things like, "Look at me!" and "Come here!" and "Look at them!"
Police response
The first call to 911 is about 9:35 am. Newtown Police 911 sent the first broadcast that there was a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary (SHES) at 9:36 am, about thirty seconds after they received the first call. The Connecticut State Police (CSP) was dispatched at 9:37 am. Newtown police arrived on the school road at 9:39 am, about four and a half minutes after the 911 call and the Connecticut State Police arrived on the school road at 9:46 am. Newtown Police first entered school at 9:45 am, about ten minutes after the first 911 call and about fourteen minutes after the shooting began. It was about five minutes after the last shot was heard. No shots were fired by the police.
Newtown Police and the Connecticut State Police are moving police dogs and local police tactical units, a bomb squad, and a state police helicopter. The police locked up the school and began evacuating the space of survivors with rooms, escorting groups of students and adults from school. They sweep the school for other shooters at least four times.
At about 10:00 am, Danbury Hospital sent additional medical personnel in the hope of having to treat many victims. Three injured patients were evacuated to the hospital, where two children were later declared dead. The other is an unknown adult.
The New York City medical examiner sent a portable morgue to help the authorities. The body of the victim was expelled from school and officially identified at night after the shooting. A state police officer is assigned to each victim's family to protect their privacy and provide them with information.
On December 4, 2013, seven 911 calls relating to the shooting were published.
Investigation
On-site
Investigators â € <â € Police sources initially reported Lanza's brother, Ryan Lanza, as the perpetrator. This may be because the offender carries the identification of his brother, Ryan told The Jersey Journal. Lanza's brother was volunteered for questioning by the New Jersey State Police, the Connecticut State Police, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Police said he was not considered a suspect, and he was not taken into custody. Ryan Lanza said he has not had contact with his brother since 2010. The Connecticut State police showed their concerns about misinformation posted on social media sites and threatened prosecution of anyone involved with the activity. A large amount of unused ammunition was found inside the school along with three semi-automatic weapons found with Lanza: Bushmaster XM15-E2S.223 caliber gun, 10mm Glock 20SF pistol, and 9mm Sau Sauer P226 pistol. Outside the school, a 12-Izhmash Saiga rifle was found in a car driven by Lanza. Shortly after the shooting, police announced that Lanza used a shotgun to kill the victims at school. At a press conference on December 15, H. Wayne Carver II, Chief Medical Superintendent of Connecticut, was asked about his injuries, and replied, "Everything I know at the moment is caused by a long gun." When asked if the children suffered before dying, Carver replied by stating that "If so, not for a long time". Under the laws of Connecticut at the time, the 20-year-old Lanza was old enough to carry long weapons, such as rifles or rifles, but too young to have or carry a gun. On March 28, 2013, court documents released from the investigation showed that the school shootings occurred in less than five minutes with 156 shots. It consists of 154 shots from a rifle and two shots from a 10mm pistol. Lanza unleashed a shot from Glock in the hallway and committed suicide with another shot from the gun to the head. Off-site
Researchers evaluated Lanza's body, looking for evidence of drugs or drugs through toxicology tests. Unusual for this type of investigation, Lanza DNA testing is used. The toxicology report is published in October 2013, and states that no alcohol or drugs are found in the system. The Lanza autopsy showed no tumors or deformities in the brain.
Lanza removed the hard drive from his computer and destroyed it before shooting, creating a challenge for investigators to recover data. At the time of publication of the final report, it is not possible to recover data from it. Police believe that Lanza has extensively conducted previous mass shooting studies, including the 2011 Norwegian attack and the shooting of the 2006 Western Nickel School Shoot in a one-room school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. Police found that Lanza had downloaded videos related to the Columbine High School massacre, other shootings, and two suicide videos with gunfire.
Details of investigations reported by law enforcement officers at the meeting of the International Chiefs of Police and Colonel Association held during the week of March 11, 2013. An article published in the New York Daily News on March 17, 2013, provides a recognized detail from this report by an anonymous law enforcement veteran who attended the meeting. The source stated that investigations have found that Lanza has created a 7-by-4 foot spreadsheet containing about 500 mass murderers and weapons they use, considered to have worked for years and been used by Lanza as a "score sheet". On March 18, 2013, Lt. Paul Vance from the Connecticut State Police responded that the information from this meeting was "sensitive law enforcement information" and considered the release as a leak.
The 28 March document also provides details about items found at Lanza's home, including three samurai swords, a newspaper article about the Northern Illinois University shooting, and a certificate of the National Rifle Association. The NRA denies that Adam Lanza or Nancy Lanza are members and reporters noted that the NRA website provides a template for completion of a training certificate for courses offered by an NRA Certified Instructor. A safety pistol was found in the bedroom and investigators found more than 1,400 rounds of ammunition and other firearms. At home, Lanza had access to three more firearms: Henry.45 rifles, Enfield enfield rifles, and Marlin rifles.22. This is legally owned by Lanza's mother who is portrayed as a fan of weapons. According to Time , the authorities also found a photo of Lanza holding a gun to his head at his home after his death.
According to The New York Times, law enforcement officials commented that Lanza would spend most of her time in her basement doing solitary activities. According to the same official, it also emerged that Lanza "may have taken the target practice in the crypt".
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Country Prosecutor's Report
The final report of the State Attorney summarizes the shooting investigation was published on November 25, 2013. It was concluded that Adam Lanza had acted alone, and that the case was closed. The report notes that "[Lanza] has a familiarity with and access to firearms and ammunition and an obsession with mass murder, particularly the April 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado." The report did not identify specific motives for the shootings, stating, "The evidence clearly shows that the shooter planned his actions, including taking his own life, but there is no clear indication of why he did it, or why he was targeting Sandy Hook primary school.
On the question of Lanza's state of mind, the report notes "significant mental health problems that affect his ability to live a normal life and interact with others, even those who should be close to him... What is the contribution made to the shootings, if any, is unknown because the mental health professionals who saw him saw nothing that would predict his future behavior. "The report found no evidence that Lanza had used drugs or drugs that would affect his behavior, and observed," 'Why did the shooter kill two seventy-seven people, including twenty children? ' Unfortunately, the question may never be answered conclusively, despite the vast collection of background information about shooters through many interviews and other sources. "
On December 27, 2013, police released thousands of pages of documents relating to the investigation. In accordance with the law, the names of victims and witnesses are edited or kept secret. The summary report includes information about the items found on Lanza's computer equipment, including articles and material on previous mass shootings. A former Lanza teacher noted that he showed antisocial behavior, rarely interacted with other students, and was obsessed with writing "about battle, destruction and war."
Office of the Child Advocate's Office
The Child Counsel Office's report concludes: "Nothing should be the critical point that drives Lanza to shoot Sandy Hook instead of a cascade of events, many of which are self-imposed, including: school loss, absence of work, with her friend, almost no personal contact with the family, almost total and increased isolation, fear of losing her home and changes in her relationship with Mrs. Lanza, her sole steward and relationship worsening OCD, depression and anxiety, deep and possibly worsening anorexia , and the escalating obsession with mass murder that took place in the absence of total involvement with the outside world of Adam increasingly lived in an alternate universe where the musings of mass firing were at the center of preoccupation. "
The authors also note that despite some developmental and mental health problems, Lanza has not received adequate mental health care. They wrote: "It is fair to suppose that, if Lanza's mental illness was adequately treated in the last years of his life, one predisposing factor to the Sandy Hook tragedy may have been reduced".
The report also disagrees with the conclusions of the State Attorney on why Lanza is targeting Sandy Hook. They note that "According to the FBI, shooters tend to target places or people who are familiar to them... Primary schools may have been targeted because they can beat people, the dynamics that are so important to mass shooters as they do, do not want to be foiled".
Performers
Adam Peter Lanza (April 22, 1992 - December 14, 2012) and his mother live in Sandy Hook, 5 miles (8 km) from elementary school. He has no criminal record. He has access to weapons through his mother, Nancy Lanza, who is described as "a gun enthusiast who has at least a dozen firearms". Nancy often took her two sons to a local shoot, where they learned to shoot. Lanza's father had said that she did not believe Nancy was afraid of Adam. He did not tell Adam's fear to his sister or to his best friend; he slept with his room door open and he kept a gun in the house where he lived with Adam.
Education
Lanza studied at Sandy Hook Elementary School for four and a half years. He started at Newtown Secondary School in 2004 but according to his mother, Nancy, she was 'plagued by anxiety'. Her mother told her friends that her son was getting annoyed in high school because of frequent changes in the classroom during the day. Movements and noise are too stimulating and nervous. At one point his anxiety was so strong, his mother took him to the emergency room at Danbury Hospital. In April 2005, he transferred him to a new school, St. Rose of Lima, where he only lasted eight weeks.
At the age of 14, he went to Newtown High School, where he was named for a roll of honor in 2007. Students and teachers who knew him in high school described Lanza as "smart, but nervous and restless." He avoids attracting attention and is uncomfortable socializing. He is not known to have close friends at school. School work often sparked the underlying hopelessness and in 2008, when Adam was sixteen he just went to school occasionally. The intense anxiety experienced by Lanza at the time showed that her autism was exacerbated by hormonal changes in adolescence. He was expelled from high school and educated at home by his mother and father. He grabbed the GED. In 2008 and 2009, he also attended several classes at Western Connecticut State University.
Developmental and mental health issues
Lanza is presented with a developmental challenge before the age of three. These include communication and sensory difficulties, socialization delays, and repetitive behavior. He was seen by New Hampshire's "Born to Three" intervention program and was referred to a special pre-school education service. After in elementary school, she was diagnosed with a sensory integration disorder. Sensory processing disorders have no official status by the medical community as a formal diagnosis but often one of the characteristics of autism. His anxiety affects his ability to go to school and in grade 8 he is placed on a "stay at home" status. This is for overly disabled children, even with support and accommodation, to go to school.
When he was thirteen, Lanza was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome by a psychiatrist, Paul Fox. At the age of fourteen his parents took him to the Yale University Children's Study Center where he was also diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder. He often washes his hands and changes his socks 20 times a day, to the point where his mother does three laundry times a day. In addition, he occasionally passes a box of tissues in one day because he can not touch the door knob with his bare hands.
Lanza was treated by Robert King who recommended extensive support placed and prescribed antidepressants Celexa. She took medicine for three days. Her mother Nancy reported: "On the third morning she complained of dizziness, that afternoon she was confused, her speech disjointed, she did not even know how to open the cereal box... she was sweating profusely... it really dripped from her hand. can think... He is practically vegetative ". He never took medicine again. A report from the Child Advocate Office found it
In a 2013 interview, Peter Lanza said he suspects his son may also suffer undiagnosed schizophrenia in addition to other conditions. Lanza says that family members may have lost signs of schizophrenia and psychotic behavior during his boy's youth because they mistakenly associate his strange behavior and improve isolation in Asperger's syndrome. Due to concerns that the report published by Lanza autism can lead to reactions to others with the condition, autism supporters campaign to clarify that autism is a brain development disorder and not a mental illness. The violence shown by Lanza in the shootings is generally not seen in the autistic population and no psychiatrist has seen detecting any signs of harassing violence in disposition.
Lanza apparently had no contact with mental health providers after 2006. Reports from the Office of Child Advocates stated: "In the course of the entire Lanza life, minimal mental health evaluation and treatment (in relation to their actual needs) were obtained from some service providers who saw it, one - the Yale Child Study Center - which seems to appreciate the seriousness of his presentation, his need for extensive mental health and special educational support, and the critical need for treatment to alleviate his obsessive-compulsive symptoms ".
Researchers found Lanza mesmerized by mass shootings, particularly the Columbine High School massacre and the shooting of Northern Illinois University 2008. Among the clippings found in his room, there was a story from The New York Times about a man who shot schoolboys on in 1891. His computer contained two suicide videos, a film showing school shootings and two photographs of Lanza pointing weapons at his own head.
This was only revealed after Lanza died, because she never allowed anyone to access her bedroom, including her mother. Lanza also put a window with a black plastic bag to block out the sun. He also chose to cut off contact with his father and brother within two years before the shootings and at one point communicated with his mother, who lived in the same house, only by email. A document titled "Selfish", about the selfishness inherent in women, was found on Lanza's computer after his death.
Last month
According to a report issued by the Office of Child Advocates in Connecticut in November 2014, Lanza may suffer from anorexia as a teenager. The authors wrote that "Anorexia may produce cognitive impairment and possible anorexia combined with autism spectrum disorder and OCD adds the risk of Lanza to suicide". They also noted that at the time of his death, Lanza "was anorexic (as high as 180 cm and weighs 51 kg), to the point of malnutrition and resulting brain damage."
He also lives in almost total isolation in his room at home spending most of his time on the internet playing World of Warcraft and other video games. The report states that it "descends" into a world where the only communication with the outside world is with members of the cyber community, "a small community of individuals who share their dark and obsessive interests in mass murder." Although his mother is present, he only communicates with him via email.
In the weeks before the murder, Lanza's mother was considering moving her to another town. He plans to buy a recreational vehicle to keep Adam so that potential buyers can see the house without harassing him. The Child Advocate Report states that:
James Knoll, a forensic psychiatrist at SUNY consulted on what motivated Lanza to kill. Knoll stated that Lanza's final actions convey a different message:
Responses
President Barack Obama gave a televised speech on the day of the shooting, saying, "We must gather and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of politics." Obama expressed "great sympathy for affected families". He also ordered that the flag be flown with half the staff at the White House and other US federal government facilities around the world in connection with the victims. On December 16, Obama traveled to Newtown where he met with the families of the victims and spoke with interfaith vigil.
Dannel Malloy, Governor of Connecticut, spoke to the media on the eve of a shooting near a local church that held up guts for the victims, urging the Connecticut people to gather and help each other. Malloy said, "Evil is visiting this community today, and it's too early to talk about recovery, but every parent, every brother, every family member must understand that Connecticut, we're all in this together, we'll do whatever we can to cope this event, we will pass it. "Hundreds of mourners, including Malloy, attended training at various churches in Newtown. On December 17, Malloy called for silence somewhere in the state and church bells were charged 26 times at 9:30 am on December 21, exactly one week after the school shoot.
Arne Duncan, US Secretary of Education, said: "... we thank every teacher, staff member and first responder who treats, comforts and protects children from danger, often at risk for themselves. everything in our power to help and support Newtown's healing and recovery. "
The day after the shooting, Lanza's father released a statement:
Our hearts went to family and friends who lost loved ones and all the wounded. Our family mourned with everyone affected by this great tragedy. No word can really express how sad we are. We were in disbelief and trying to find whatever answer we could. We also asked why. We have fully cooperated with law enforcement and will continue to do so. Like most of you, we are sad, but struggling to understand what has happened.
Leaders from various countries and organizations around the world also expressed their condolences over the weekend after the shooting.
President Obama honors six adults who died posthumously with the 2012 Presidential Citizen Medal on February 15, 2013. President Obama said "And then when Dawn Hochsprung, and Mary Sherlach, Vicki Soto, Lauren Rousseau, Rachel D'Avino, Anne Marie Murphy - when they appeared to work at Sandy Hook Elementary on December 14 last year, they were expecting a day like the others - doing what was right for their children, spending a cold morning preparing the classroom and welcoming young students - they did not know the crime and when they do, they can take refuge on their own, they can focus on their own safety, on their own welfare, but they do not.They give their lives to protect precious children there, their attention. all they have for the most innocent and helpless among us we appreciate this day - a brave heart, a selfless spirit, an inspiring action of an extraordinary American, an extraordinary citizen. "
The conspiracy theory of Sandy Hook has become a social phenomenon, although contemporary coverage extends from the incident.
Pistol control
The Sandy Hook Elementary School photo shoot prompted a new debate on weapons control in the United States, including proposals for setting up a universal background check system, and for new federal and state laws that prohibit the sale and manufacture of certain types of semi-automatic weapons and magazines. with more than ten rounds of ammunition.
Within hours of the shooting, the We the People petition began asking the White House to "immediately address the issue of weapon control through the introduction of legislation in Congress," and the Brady Campaign control arms control group to Prevent Pistol Violence reported that the avalanche of donations within hours of the shooting causing the website to crash. Five days later, President Obama announced that he would make arms control a "major problem" of his second term, and he created a task force for armed violence, which would be led by Vice President Joe Biden. On January 16, 2013, Obama signed 23 executive orders and proposed 12 congressional actions on arms control. The proposal includes a universal background check on gun purchases, a ban on attack weapons, and limits the magazine's capacity to 10 cartridges.
On December 21, 2012, the National Rifle Association of Wayne LaPierre says the weapon-free school zone attracts killers and other weapons bans will not protect America. He asks Congress for the appropriate funds to hire armed police for every American school and announces that the NRA will create the Shield National Emergency Response School Program to help. After the LaPierre press conference, Brady's Campaign called for donations to support arms control advocacy and asked members of the NRA "who believe like us, that we are better than this" to join his campaign. On January 8, 2013, former Congressman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot and wounded in a 2011 shooting in Tucson, launched an American arms control group for Responsible Solutions, with the specific aim of matching or exceeding the fundraising capabilities of NRAs and similar groups.
On January 16, 2013, New York became the first US state to act after the shootings when the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Act came into force (SAFE) in force. On April 3, 2013, the Connecticut General Assembly passed a 139-page arms control law with extensive bipartisan support. Governor Dannel P. Malloy signed the bill on the same day. The bill requires universal background checks (background checks for all firearms purchases), prohibits the sale or purchase of magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds of ammunition as used in Sandy Hook Elementary School photography, creating the first registry in the United States. for the perpetrators of dangerous weapons, and added more than 100 types of weapons to the state weapons ban. Pro-armed groups have gathered outside the Capitol to protest before the signing and challenge it in court. Federal Judge Alfred Covello reigned in January 2014, to enforce the law.
On April 4, 2013, Maryland also imposes new restrictions on their existing arms laws. Ten other states have issued legislation that loosens arms restrictions.
Legislation introduced at the first session of the 113th Congress included the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 and the Manchin-Toomey Amendment to expand the background check on weapons purchases. Both were defeated in the Senate on April 17, 2013.
Video game
The new debate on the impact of a violent video games game against young children began shortly after the shootings because news reports showing Lanza often played violent video games. Wayne LaPierre, CEO and Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, openly blames video games for shootings, especially targeting the free online game Kindergarten Killers created by Gary Short.
Police found many video games in the basement of Adam Lanza's house, which was used as a gaming area. The final report on the shooting by the State Attorney, published in November 2013, notes that "[Lanza] often play video games, both solo at home and online, they can be described as violent and nonviolent." One person describes the shooter as spending the most it's time to play non-violent video games all day long, with her favorite at one point is Super Mario Bros. "
The report describes her fondness for the Dance Dance Revolution, which she often plays for hours with a cinema acquaintance at Danbury who has a commercial version of the game, as well as playing home games. Dance Dance Revolution is a nonviolence exercise game where "users are required to move their feet rhythmically in response to video cues". According to the Report by the Office of Child Advocates, Lanza will play the game for hours using it as a distraction from her inner turmoil. The report says "he will whip himself into a frenzy, consistent behavior, perhaps, with the need to impulse and anxious thoughts." There are days when he will not do anything other than Dance Dance Revolution .
The final report by the District Attorney did not make a connection between video games and shooting motives. However, the Child Advocate Report says "video games and internet addiction seem 'very comorbid with some other psychiatric disorders' including anxiety, depression, and obsessive compulsive challenges".
Impact on community
2013
The school was closed unlimited after the shooting, partly because it remains the scene of the case. Sandy Hook's student returns to class on January 3, 2013, at Chalk Hill Middle School in nearby Monroe at the invitation of the city. Chalk Hill at the time was an unused facility, refurbished after the shootings, with tables and equipment brought from Sandy Hook Elementary. The Chalk Hill School is temporarily named "Sandy Hook". The University of Connecticut created scholarships for children who survived the shootings.
On January 31, Newtown school council voted unanimously to request the presence of police officers in all primary schools; earlier other schools in the district had such protection, but Sandy Hook was not one of them.
On May 10, a task force of the twenty-eight appointed members decided to destroy the existing Sandy Hook primary school and build a new school in its place. The proposed $ 57 million project was sent to the Newtown Board of Education for approval, to be followed by a public vote. In October 2013, Newtown residents voted 4,504-558 to support the proposed demolition and reconstruction, which will be funded by $ 50 million in state money. The demolition begins on October 25 and finishes in December 2013 at a cost of nearly US $ 1.4 million.
After the city clerk's office was flooded with media requests, Connecticut House of Representatives, Republican And Carter introduced legislation that would limit access to public information available under the Freedom of Information Act. On June 5, the two assemblies (Senate and House of Representatives) from the state legislature of Connecticut passed a law that modified the State Freedom of Information Act to "prevent the release of crime scene photographs and video evidence of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. other Connecticut murders, fearing such records would spread on the Internet. "The bill was then forwarded to Gov Dannel P. Malloy's desk for his autograph. The bill creates new exceptions to the country's Freedom of Information Act. The release of photographs, films, videos, digital or other visual images depicting a murder victim is prevented if such records "can be reasonably suspected to be an unreasonable violation of the personal privacy of the victim or family member of the survivor."
2014
In March 2014, Newtown city officials announced the design for the new Sandy Hook Elementary School. The only remaining original school is the flagpole.
A few days later, the Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation released survey results with more than 1,600 respondents. Among other questions, the survey asked residents what to do by balancing the US $ 11 million donations that have been received since the incident of 2012. Most of the responses say that money for mental health counseling and other family expenses should be top. priority. Some responses suggest that some of the money should be spent on buying and destroying shooter families to replace them with parks or wildlife sanctuaries. Jennifer Barahona, executive director of the foundation, was quoted as saying, "It's not something we're considering right now, it's really beyond our scope."
On October 21st, the building preparation work starts at the new Sandy Hook Elementary School; updates and project progress posted on a custom website, SandyHook2016 . Citing security and privacy reasons and out of respect for the families of the victims, no groundbreaking ceremony was held. Construction is scheduled to begin in March 2015 with schools expected to open by December 2016.
In December, it was announced that the city of Newtown would acquire the property and house of Nancy Lanza at no cost. The property at 36 Yogananda St is part of the Lanza plantation, where the surviving son, Ryan Lanza is the sole heir. Lanza's lawyer, Kenneth Gruder, arranged the transfer through a series of transactions so that the wills will not show the city acquiring property from the Lanza family. Gruder said the fame of the house basically made it virtually impossible to sell.
On December 15, 2014, nine of the families (plaintiffs) were affected by the shootings filed suit against the producers (defendants) of the Bushmaster AR-15-style rifles used in school attacks. Also named in the lawsuit are Camfour, a gun distributor, and the now-closed East Windsor store, Riverview's Sale, where the rifle was bought. In January 2015, lawyers for the Bushmaster company petitioned to move to Federal court because, although the shootings took place in Connecticut, they were in North Carolina. In February 2015, a lawyer representing the victim's family made a move to transfer the lawsuit against the Bushmaster gunmaker back to the state court. On April 14, 2016, a court in Connecticut denied the defendants as a motion to dismiss the case, the defendant filed a second motion for dismissal a month later. On October 14, 2016, the motion of the defendants to strike (dismiss) the complaint (lawsuit) was granted. The judge ruled that the complaint was invalid under Federal and Connecticut laws. The plaintiffs indicated they would appeal the verdict.
2015
On January 21, 2015, the Newtown Legislative Council voted unanimously to demolish the house where Nancy and Adam Lanza lived, and to keep the land as open space. The demolition was completed on March 24, 2015. Also in January, the families of two first-grade students killed in the shootings filed a lawsuit against Newtown city and the Newtown Board of Education accused of inadequate security at the school.
In February 2015, the family of one of the victims, Victoria Soto, filed a trademark protection on his behalf. The reason is to help prevent others misusing Soto's name on social media and for the benefit of a memorial fund established on his behalf. The victim's sister Jillian states that a fake social media account exists using her sister's name to promote conspiracy theories about the shootings.
In March, it was announced that the parents of children and teachers killed in the shoot had filed a lawsuit against Nancy Lanza plantation. The lawsuit was based on a claim that he did not actually secure a firearm, which allowed his son, a person with mental health problems, to gain access to them. The lawyers representing the family say Lanza is believed to have homeowners insurance at home worth more than $ 1 million and they are seeking compensation based on it.
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In July 2016, Sandy Hook Elementary School was introduced and parents were shown around the building. The new school is on the scene of the building where the shooting occurred, which was destroyed and rebuilt with a state grant of about $ 50 million.
2018
On April 17, 2018, radio guides and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones were sued for defamation by three parents whose children were killed in the shootings. Jones has said that Sandy Hook's shooting was "totally fake" and "gigantic trickery" perpetrated by the opponents of the Second Amendment.
Legal action
Nine families (plaintiffs) of 26 shootings filed a class action lawsuit in Connecticut against Bushmaster, Remington Arms and others (the accused) sought "unspecified" damage, claiming an exception in the 2005 Protection of Legal Trades in the Weapon Deed which would normally forbid such clothing. The plaintiffs allege that the XM15-E2S is only suitable for military and polishing applications, and the Bushmaster is improperly marketing firearms to civilians. On April 14, 2016, a court in Connecticut denied the defendants a motion to cancel the case, with defense lawyers filing a second motion for dismissal a month later. On October 14, 2016, the motion of the defendants to strike (dismiss) the complaint (lawsuit) was granted. The judge ruled that the complaint was invalid under Federal and Connecticut laws. The plaintiffs indicated they would appeal the verdict.
See also
- List of attacks related to primary school
- List of school related attacks
- List of school shootings in the United States
- Armed violence in the United States
- The list of killers goes berserk (school slaughter)
Note
References
External links
- Quotes related to Sandy Hook Elementary School photoshoot on Wikiquote
- Sandy Hook Elementary School (Archive) website
- Sandy Hook End Report
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