Sandy Hook Elementary School was evacuated and classes dismissed for the day after a bomb threat was called in on Friday, the sixth anniversary of a 2012 shooting at the Newtown, Connecticut, school that left 20 children and six adults dead. On Friday morning, the school received a phone call from an unknown person “purporting a bomb threat,” Lt. Aaron Bahamonde with the Newtown Police Department told HuffPost. Over the years, many parents of Sandy Hook victims have received an overwhelming number of threats from people falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax and never actually happened. “Please stand with our community as we attempt to survive another tragic anniversary,” Newtown Action, a gun control advocacy group formed after the shooting, tweeted Friday. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said on Twitter that his heart was “breaking” at the news of the bomb threat.

Source: Huffington Post December 14, 2018 17:37 UTC