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Sandy Hook Elementary School

school, Newtown, Connecticut, United States
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  • Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
    Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
    / The shootings at Sandy Hook

    …drove his mother’s car to Sandy Hook Elementary School, a public school in Newtown for kindergarten through fourth grade. Leaving the shotgun in the car, Lanza shot his way through a window next to the school’s locked security door just after 9:30 am. He was immediately confronted by Sandy Hook…

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    …drove his mother’s car to Sandy Hook Elementary School, a public school in Newtown for kindergarten through fourth grade. Leaving the shotgun in the car, Lanza shot his way through a window next to the school’s locked security door just after 9:30 am. He was immediately confronted by Sandy Hook…

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