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On December 14, 2012, a mass shooting occurred at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrator, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people. Twenty of the victims were children between six and seven years old, and the other six were adult staff members.
The Bristol, Connecticut police killings occurred on October 12, 2022, when two law enforcement officers from the Bristol Police Department were shot and killed, and another wounded, while responding to a 911 call of a domestic dispute . The Bristol Police Department answered a domestic violence call at 10:42 pm in Bristol, Connecticut and ...
A man opened fire, killing a 25-year-old student and wounding two others. The shooting suspects: Tevita Kaihea and Charlie Hola (both 19 years old) were not arrested for the shooting until December of that year and in 2018 Kaihea was sentenced to 112 years to life in prison and Hola was sentenced to 49 years to life.
Cheshire murders. On July 23, 2007, two intruders invaded the home of the Petit family in Cheshire, Connecticut. The perpetrators Linda Hayes (at the time known as Steven Hayes) [b] and Joshua Andrew Komisarjevsky initially planned only to rob the house, but went on to murder Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, 17-year-old Hayley Petit ...
Mass shootings in Connecticut. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Mass shootings in the United States. It includes mass shootings that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Connecticut's most wide-ranging gun control measure since the 2013 law enacted after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting takes effect Sunday, with proponents vowing to pursue more gun ...
Hartford Distributors shooting. The Hartford Distributors shooting on August 3, 2010, was a mass shooting at a beer distribution company in Manchester, Connecticut. 34-year-old former employee Omar Thornton fatally shot 8 coworkers and injured 2 others with a Ruger SR9 semi-automatic pistol. After hiding in an office, Thornton called 911 and ...
December 23, 2016. The Kent State shootings (also known as the Kent State massacre or May 4 massacre [3] [4] [5]) were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus. The shootings took place on May 4, 1970, during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the ...