Faith leaders encouraged the Newtown community to embrace the solidarity of shared experience during a remembrance of those killed in the Sandy Hook shootings.

Exactly 12 years ago, on December 14, 2012, the lives of 20 first-graders and six educators were taken at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut: an unimaginable tragedy which left me in grief that will never truly heal.

More than 12 years on from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, a former police captain had hoped he would no longer have to discuss the deaths of children from a school shooting. Christopher Vanghele,

Scarlett Lewis, mother of Jesse Lewis, says virtues of courage, forgiveness and compassion promoted through her Choose Love nonprofit are how she lives.

Mothers Nicole Hockley and Jenny Hubbard, whose children were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, say their grief journeys are their own.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Saturday marked 12 years since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. On December 14th, 2012, a gunman killed 20 children, ages 6 and 7, as well as six adults, before taking his own life. It remains one of the deadliest school shootings in American history.

Today marks 12 years since the deadly mass shooting of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. On December 14th, 2012, a gunman killed 6 adults and 20 students at the school in Newtown. Since the mass shooting Connecticut schools have spent millions of dollars hardening security.