The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a mass shooting and murder–suicide that occurred on December 14, 2012, at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 26 people—20 first-grade children and six...
On February 19, 2022, 43-year-old Benjamin Jeffrey Smith approached and opened fire on a small group of protesters, at the edge of Normandale Park in Portland, Oregon, United States. He murdered one, caused the paralysis of another (who later died...
On March 1, 2026, a mass shooting occurred at Buford's Backyard Beer Garden on West Sixth Street in Downtown Austin, Texas, United States. The perpetrator, 53-year-old Senegal-born naturalized US citizen, Ndiaga Diagne, opened fire with a pistol...
Adam Peter Lanza (April 22, 1992 – December 14, 2012) was an American mass murderer who perpetrated the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, one of the deadliest mass shootings and mass murders in American history. On December 14, 2012, he fatally...
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut. The perpetrator, Adam Lanza, fatally shot his mother before murdering 20 students and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and later...
Victoria Leigh Soto (November 4, 1985 – December 14, 2012) was an American teacher who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. After the gunman, Adam Lanza, entered the school, she hid her students in her classroom. When Lanza...
Robert Wayne Harris (February 28, 1972 – September 20, 2012) was an American mass murderer and serial killer who killed six people in Texas. In 1999, Harris abducted and killed a woman whom he suspected of stealing money from him. The following...
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on December 14, 2012—in which Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother at home, 20 students, 6 teachers, then himself—received domestic and international attention. Public national debate within the United...
Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker. His accolades include two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globes. Affleck began his career as a child when he starred in the PBS educational series...
