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Sandy Hook Elementary victims revealed
As the nation is still coming to grips with this terrible tragedy, slowly the identities of the victims are being revealed.
As the nation is still coming to grips with this terrible tragedy, slowly the identities of the Sandy Hook Elementary victims are being revealed.
The alleged shooter
Adam Lanza, the alleged shooter fatally shot his own mother in her home before getting in her car and driving to the nearby elementary school. There, he took the lives of 20 children, all between the ages of 5 and 10, six adults and then himself at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Conn.
Sandy Hook Elementary victims
The names of the victims that have been released so far are:
- Dawn Hochsprung (principal), 47
- Mary Sherlach (school psychologist), 56
- Victoria Soto (first grade teacher), 27 – Victoria Soto put her students in a closet after hearing gunfire. When the shooter came to her classroom, she shielded every one of her students, and gunned her down.
- Grace McDonnell, 6
- Jesse Lewis, 6
- Ana Marquez-Greene, 6
Unheard Voices extends its deepest condolences to all the families who have been affected by this terrible tragedy.
Jesse Lewis,6, with his father
Ana Marquez Greene
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