Sandy Hook School Shooter’s Home Gets Demolished

The home in Newtown, Connecticut where Sandy Hook school shooter Adam Lanza once lived with his mother, has been demolished.

The construction company Manafort Brothers of Plainville, Connecticut, volunteered to destroy the home and did so within two hours.  The project was completed yesterday, after the house came down, the foundation and driveway were torn up as well, to leave just two acres of bare land behind.

The town will return to Yogananda Street where the home used to stand, later on this spring to make a decision on what to do with the land.  The goal is to bring it back to a natural state.  If the land happens to be sold, profits from that would go to the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting.

People living in the neighborhood where the shooter's home stood until yesterday, had been asking for the home to be taken down since the massacre happened back in December of 2012.   They said it was a constant reminder of the terrible tragedy and that multiple people in the area were having a difficult time moving on with the building still intact.

Elsewhere in Newtown, Connecticut, the new Sandy Hook elementary school is currently being built.  The foundation for it went in last week.