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On December 14, 2012, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Adam Lanza kills 20 first graders and six school employees before turning a gun on himself. Earlier that day, he killed his mother at the home they shared.
A memorial to massacre victims stands near the former site of Sandy Hook Elementary on December 14, 2013 in Newtown, Connecticut.
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