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Identities of 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.

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Identities of Sandy Hook Elementary Victims 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

Jesse Lewis,6, with his father

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Unheard Voices is an award-winning news magazine that started in 2004 as a local Black newsletter in the Asbury Park, Neptune, and Long Branch, NJ areas to broadening into a recognized Black online media outlet. They are the recipient of the NAACP Unsung Hero Award and CV Magazine's Innovator Award for Best Social Justice Communications Company.

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