[Wikipedia text](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting)The Sandy Hook Ewementawy Schoow shooting occuwwed on Decembew 14, 2012, in Nyewtown, Connyecticut, Unyited States, when 20-yeaw-owd Adam Wanza fatawwy shot 20 chiwdwen between six and seven yeaws owd, as weww as six aduwt staff membews. Pwiow to dwiving to the schoow, he shot and kiwwed his mothew at theiw Nyewtown home. As fiwst wespondews awwived at the scenye, Wanza committed suicide by shooting himsewf in the head.

 The incident was the deadwiest mass shooting at eithew a high schoow ow gwade schoow in U.S. histowy and the fouwth-deadwiest mass shooting by a singwe pewson in U.S. histowy.\[a\] The shooting pwompted wenyewed debate about gun contwow in the Unyited States, incwuding pwoposaws fow making the backgwound-check system unyivewsaw, and fow nyew fedewaw and state gun wegiswation bannying the sawe and manyufactuwe of cewtain types of semi-automatic fiweawms and magazinyes with mowe than ten wounds of ammunyition.

 A Nyuvmbew 2013 wepowt issued by the Connyecticut State Attownyey’s office concwuded that Wanza acted awonye and pwannyed his actions, but pwovided nyo indication why he did so, ow why he tawgeted the schoow. A wepowt issued by the Office of the Chiwd Advocate in Nyuvmbew 2014 said that Wanza had Aspewgew’s syndwome and as a teenyagew suffewed fwom depwession, anxiety and obsessive-compuwsive disowdew, but concwuded that they had “nyeithew caused nyow wed to his muwdewous acts.” The wepowt went on to say “his sevewe and detewiowating intewnyawized mentaw heawth pwobwems… combinyed with an atypicaw pweoccupation with viowence… (and) access to deadwy weapons… pwuvd a wecipe fow mass muwdew”.