As the funeral processions unfolded this week across Newtown, Conn., laying to rest the 26 victims of last week’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the massacre’s often-uncounted 27th victim was quietly memorialized Thursday: Nancy Lanza, the killer’s mother.
On Friday, Dec. 14, a gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., killing 20 children and six adults. Police said all of the children killed were 6 or 7 years old.
The suspect, identified as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, fatally shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, in her home before heading to the school, said police.
The tragedy is the second worst school shooting in U.S. history. It follows the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech, which claimed 32 lives.
