Newtown, Connecticut, to Vote on Razing Gunman's Home

Newtown, Connecticut, officials are considering a plan to tear down the home of the man responsible for the massacre of 26 people at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

Newtown, Connecticut, officials are considering a plan to tear down the home of the man responsible for the massacre of 26 people at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.

The Newtown Legislative Council has a vote scheduled for Wednesday night on a proposal to raze the house and preserve it as open space. The town is also considering putting a limitation on the deed to the property specifying that the victims' families would get any proceeds from any future sale or development of the land.

The House where Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother, Nancy, on the morning before the school shooting was given to the town in December by a bank that acquired the property from the Lanza family. 

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