Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
A memorial for the victims
Location	Newtown, Connecticut, United States
Coordinates	41°25′12″N 73°16′43″W
Date	December 14, 2012 9:35 a.m. – 9:40 a.m. (EST)
Attack type	School shooting, mass murder, mass shooting, murder-suicide
Weapons	Two 9-mm handguns and a .223-caliber rifle
Deaths	28 (27 deaths at the school including the perpetrator plus the perpetrator's mother at home)
Non-fatal injuries	2
Perpetrator	Adam Lanza

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a school shooting which 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.

The shooter was Adam Lanza. He shot and killed his mother, before going to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed twenty children and six adult staff members as well as injuring two other staff members. He committed suicide before he could be arrested.