Adam Lanza

Adam Peter Lanza (April 22, 1992 - December 14, 2012) was the 20-year-old perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which occurred on the morning of December 14, 2012. Lanza shot and killed his mother, Nancy, before driving to the school where he killed six educators and twenty first grade students between the ages of six and seven. Lanza committed suicide just as first responders arrived.