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The Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
Newtown, Connecticut, United StatesDecember 14, 2012
On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 first-graders and 6 staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, after first killing his own mother. He killed himself when police arrived. The massacre prompted President Obama's most emotional public address and sustained legislative efforts on gun control. Conspiracy theorists who falsely claimed the shooting was staged caused years of harassment against the victims' families, leading to landmark defamation lawsuits against Alex Jones.