Sandy Hook Elementary

Shooting Outbreak On 14th December 2012

Second-deadliest School Shooting in the United States history.

Adam Lanza, was said Mentally Ill.

   After the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. It is also the second deadliest attack at an American Elementary school after the Bath School disaster in 1927.

   The gunman is identified as 20-year-old Adam Lanza. Before attacking the school, Adam Lanza first shot his very own mother aged 52 in the face at their nearby Newtown home. He then drove off to the Sandy Hook Elementary and took the lives of 20 students and 8 adults. He then committed suicide. 

   The teachers whom died in this shooting were to be saluted as they tried their best in protecting their students. One of them was Victoria Soto. She hided her students in the closets and cupboards . Lanza entered Soto's classroom whereupon Soto put herself between him and her students and she was fatally shot in the process. She put her life for the lives of her students.

   Another teacher that goes by the name of Anne Marie Murphy shield her students with her own body. But through all her bravery, her students weren't safe. The died with her body covering them in a protecting way.

   Many of the staffs were trying to save this young children and it took the lives of 20 students and 8 adults. President of the United states made a remark on the shooting.