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- Twenty children and six staff members were killed in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012.
- It was the deadliest mass shooting at an elementary school in US history.
- The 20-year-old gunman also killed his mother that day and shot himself after the massacre.
On December 14, 2012, a 20-year-old man walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and shot 26 people, including 20 children, after also killing his mother in their home.
News of the massacre reverberated across the country and elicited a tearful reaction from then-President Barack Obama, who described it as the worst day of his presidency.
Sen. Chris Murphy, who had previously been a representative for the district that included Newtown, was among those present when the families of the victims learned about the fates of their loved ones.
"'I'm so, so sad today," he tweeted on the sixth anniversary in 2018. "Sad for the searing loss, that hurts like hell every Dec 14th for those parents, my friends. And sad that I sent my youngest off to 1st grade this morning, and that I work with people who care more about politics than making sure he comes home safe."
In the decade that has passed since that day, many of the parents and families launched foundations in their children's names to help others, and become advocates for gun control.
And in early August, conspiracy theorist and Infowars founder Alex Jones was ordered to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to two parents whose son was killed in the Sandy Hook massacre in a defamation trial after he spent years calling the shooting a "hoax" and the victims "crisis actors." Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, the parents of six-year-old victim Jesse Lewis, were also awarded $4.1 million in compensatory damages in the defamation trial against Jones.
Here are all 27 people killed in the deadliest elementary school shooting in US history.
Jessica Rekos Foundation
Source: Jessica Rekos Foundation
Submitted to The Wall Street Journal via Tim Nosenzo
Source: Wall Street Journal
Avielle Foundation
Source: Avielle Foundation
Submitted to The Wall Street Journal via Scarlett Lewis
Source: The New York Post
Family photo via ABC News
Source: ABC News
Ponzer family photo via ABC News
Source: ABC News
Family photo via The Wall Street Journal
Source: Wall Street Journal
AP
Source: Wall Street Journal
Charlotte Helen Bacon Foundation
Submitted to The Wall Street Journal via the Hubbard Family
Source: Wall Street Journal
The Gay Family/AP
Source: New York Daily News
What Would Daniel Do
Source: The Danbury News-Times, What Would Daniel Do? foundation
James Mattioli 5K
Caroline Previdi Foundation
Source: Caroline Previdi Foundation
Allison Wyatt Memorial Fund
via ABC News
Source: ABC News
Submitted to The Wall Street Journal via Gilles Rousseau
Source: Wall Street Journal
via ABC News
Source: Boston Globe
via Newtown Patch
Source: Patch
Handout
Sources: Legacy, Rachel Marie D’Avino memorial site
Danbury News-Times
Source: Danbury News-Times
Family of Nancy Lanza
Seth Wenig/AP
Jack Pinto, 6
Abby Rogers contributed to an earlier version of this post.