26 too many people were killed on December 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Before the shooting happened Adam Lanza,20 grabbed 3 guns from his house, then he went to the school.When Adam Lanza arrived at the school there were approximately 700 students in their classes. The principal at Sandy Hook had started using a new security system where after 9:30 visitors would have to buzz in and all the doors would be locked. When Lanza arrived the doors were locked, but he just shot an entrance right through them.
Inside the school when 3 of the adults in the school heard the gunshots, they went out to investigate and only one of them returned alive but she was wounded. Teachers were moving their students into bathrooms and closets, in one of the classrooms Lauren Rousseau, who a substitute teacher who was filling in for a teacher out on maternity leave. In her class the gunman shot all 14 children. In another classroom, the teacher moved her students away from the door, but the gunman burst in and shot her and 6 of the students were killed.
The first officer arrived at Sandy Hook 2 minutes and 41 seconds after the first police radio broadcast of the shooting. The gunman at took a gun and shot himself in a classroom, as the police were arriving to the scene. Everyone in the school had been taken to a nearby firehouse where the children could be picked up by their parents. This firehouse became a gathering point that night for the families of the people who have been killed. Twenty students and six adults were killed.
Inside the school when 3 of the adults in the school heard the gunshots, they went out to investigate and only one of them returned alive but she was wounded. Teachers were moving their students into bathrooms and closets, in one of the classrooms Lauren Rousseau, who a substitute teacher who was filling in for a teacher out on maternity leave. In her class the gunman shot all 14 children. In another classroom, the teacher moved her students away from the door, but the gunman burst in and shot her and 6 of the students were killed.
The first officer arrived at Sandy Hook 2 minutes and 41 seconds after the first police radio broadcast of the shooting. The gunman at took a gun and shot himself in a classroom, as the police were arriving to the scene. Everyone in the school had been taken to a nearby firehouse where the children could be picked up by their parents. This firehouse became a gathering point that night for the families of the people who have been killed. Twenty students and six adults were killed.