Newtown Public Schools: Sandy Hook Elementary School Evacuated After Site Of 2012 Shooting Receives Threatening Phone Call, Reported Bomb Threat [PHOTOS]
A reported bomb threat has lead to the evacuation of schoolchildren from the newly rebuilt Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
According to the CBS News Albany, children were being moved from the school to a nearby location where they could be picked up by their parents, after a bomb threat was allegedly called into the school at 9:30 a.m. October 1. Students were evacuated as a precaution, though Monroe Police Lt. Brian McCauley told the station that the school building and grounds were checked and no evidence of danger was found.
The school was on an extra-high alert about the threat after its initial location in Newtown became the site of one of the deadliest school shootings in recent U.S. history. Gunman Adam Lanza entered the school on December 14, 2012 and killed 20 students and six teachers at the school before shooting himself. He also killed his mother, Nancy, before going to the school.
The original school building was torn down last year and students resumed classes in the new Sandy Hook school building that was rebuilt in the town of Monroe.
After the highly-publicized event, the state of Connecticut placed a ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, which has since been ruled by a federal court not to violate gun owners' constitutional rights, despite a wide belief it had done so.
Since the shooting, New York, Colorado (which was the sight of the deadly Columbine High School shooting in 1999 and Aurora Movie Theater shooting earlier in 2012), and Maryland all tightened their own gun laws, while the Obama Administration took steps to tighten background checks nationwide in an attempt to keep firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill.
