After this week's bloodbath on the Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Texas, individuals are drawing comparisons to the Sandy Hook taking pictures that occurred nearly 10 years in the past.

The Sandy Hook faculty taking pictures, when Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 individuals, is the deadliest mass taking pictures at a U.S. elementary faculty, and the Uvalde, Texas, taking pictures is the second deadliest up to now.

Authorities have named Salvador Ramos, 18, because the gunman who killed 19 younger kids and two lecturers who tried to protect them at Robb Elementary College. Ramos was killed by regulation enforcement officers.

What was the Sandy Hook taking pictures?

Sandy Hook, an elementary faculty in Newtown, Connecticut, is a public faculty for kids from kindergarten by way of fourth grade. On December, 14, 2012, Adam Lanza entered the college and opened hearth on lecturers and college students, leaving 26 individuals lifeless and two individuals injured. Twenty of the lifeless had been kids and 6 adults.

Sandy Hook Timeline:

Adam Lanza murders mom

The assault started when Lanza, who was 20 years outdated on the time, shot and killed his mom, Nancy. He shot her 4 instances with a .22 caliber rifle that she had purchased. She had additionally bought an AR-15 and a number of other different firearms that Lanza would use within the taking pictures.

Earlier than leaving the home, Lanza destroyed his laptop's arduous drive to make it troublesome for regulation enforcement to collect proof.

Sandy Hook Bloodbath

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Lanza left the home with an AR-15, two semi-automatic pistols and a shotgun, in addition to a whole bunch of rounds of ammunition. He then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary College, and, utilizing the AR-15, shot his approach by way of the college's locked safety door. He was rapidly met by Sandy Hook's principal, Daybreak Hochsprung, in addition to the college psychologist Mary Scherlach.

He shot and killed each ladies. Nevertheless, the sounds of the photographs had been broadcast to school rooms due to the college's public tackle system, and instantly, lecturers adhered to the lockdown protocols to guard the kids. This meant hiding the kids in closets or loos, and barricading doorways, in order that the shooter couldn't attain them.

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Lanza then entered the classroom of Lauren Rousseau, a trainer, and killed her and 14 kids. Lanza then went to a second classroom the place trainer Victoria Soto had hidden her college students in a closet. Soto, making an attempt to guard her college students, lied and informed Lanza the youngsters had been within the faculty's auditorium on the other constructing. He shot and killed her, in addition to six college students who tried to run.

Different victims included Anne Marie Murphy, a particular wants assistant, and Rachel D'Avino, a behavioral therapist. In whole, Lanza fired 154 rounds in lower than 5 minutes, killing 26 individuals.

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A ultimate shot was heard, which is believed to be when Lanza shot himself.

Aftermath

Following the taking pictures, medical data said that the victims had every been shot a number of instances. The taking pictures began new debate about gun management, with vital deal with the AR-15 rifle that had been used, and questions over the necessity for semi-automatic rifles to be legally obtainable. Nevertheless, regardless of the youth of the victims (some had been six years outdated) and the variety of lives misplaced, no vital motion was taken by Congress.

Nevertheless, the households and family members of the victims based the Sandy Hook Promise, a non-profit group devoted to selling psychological wellbeing and reforming gun legal guidelines.

Sandy Hook Demonstration
Francine Wheeler, shows a photograph of her son, Sandy Hook Elementary taking pictures sufferer Ben Wheeler, at March for our Lives Rally at Fairfield Hills Campus, in Newtown Connecticut on August 12, 2018KENA BETANCUR / AFP/Getty

2014

Angered and pissed off by the dearth of motion by Congress, 9 households of the Sandy Hook victims filed a lawsuit in opposition to Remington, the producer of the AR-15 that Lanza had used.

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After Remington filed for chapter safety twice, and eight years that noticed no gun reform, Remington settled with the Sandy Hook households for $73 million.

A decade later, one other mass taking pictures occurred at a college, nearly as lethal as Sandy Hook.