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 |
Date | December 14, 2012 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 |
|
Deaths | 28 (27 at the school including the perpetrator, and the perpetrator's mother at home) |
Injured | 2 |
Perpetrator | Adam Lanza[1] |
Motive | Unknown[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]
ID
was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).