The Day Hell Came to School
Teri Schure
Hell came to school on 12/14/12.
Five years ago today, a 20-year-old stormed into the Sandy Hook Elementary School and massacred 20 first graders and six adults in a frenzy of gunfire.
The killer used a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle to slaughter the students and six educators. It took him less than five minutes. All but two of his victims were shot multiple times.
On what should have been a routine December school day, twenty 6 and 7-year old children said goodbye to their families and never came home.
Every year on this day, I make a donation to Sandy Hook Promise, a national non-profit organization founded and led by several family members whose loved ones were killed on that hellish day.