Newtown Votes to Raze School Gunman’s Home
A legislative council in Newtown, Conn., has voted to raze the former home of Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza.
The Newtown Legislative Council of Newtown, Conn., has voted to raze the house where Adam Lanza lived prior to his attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
The 2-acre property where Lanza shot his mother to death before carrying out a massacre on a local elementary school was given to the town in December by a bank that acquired it from the Lanza family. The home is expected to be razed after winter is over, the Associated Press reports.
The council’s vote approved a proposal by the board of selectmen to raze the home and keep the land as open space. The demolition is estimated to cost about $27,000.
Lanza killed 20 first-graders and six educators before taking his own life on Dec. 14, 2012.
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