Overview
- Gov. Ned Lamont ordered U.S. and state flags lowered to half-staff on Sunday to honor the 26 people killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
- On Dec. 13, a shooting at Brown University killed two students and injured nine others, and a person of interest was taken into custody early Sunday, authorities said.
- Sandy Hook Promise and chief advocacy officer Lauren Levin urged further investigation and swift action to prevent school shootings, linking their message to the Brown incident.
- Connecticut’s 2013 response expanded the assault-weapons ban by more than 100 firearms, created a dangerous-weapon offender registry, and tightened ammunition purchasing rules, and the state had the sixth-lowest gun death rate in 2023, according to Giffords Law Center.
- In the 2012 attack, the gunman killed his mother before using a semiautomatic rifle to murder 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook, then died by suicide at the school.