Newtown Votes To Tear Down Home Of Sandy Hook Killer

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2012 file photo a police cruiser sits in the driveway of the home of Nancy Lanza, in Newtown, Conn. The Newtown Legislative Council is voting Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015 on a proposal recommended... FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2012 file photo a police cruiser sits in the driveway of the home of Nancy Lanza, in Newtown, Conn. The Newtown Legislative Council is voting Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015 on a proposal recommended by the board of selectmen to raze the 3,100-square-foot home and keep the land as open space. The Colonial-style home where Newtown school shooter Adam Lanza lived with his mother has been transferred to the town in a deal with a bank. Nancy Lanza was killed there by her son before he forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School, Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown, where he killed 20 first-graders and six educators. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File) MORE LESS
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The home where mass killer Adam Lanza plotted the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School will be demolished, CNN reported Thursday.

The Newtown, Conn., city council voted unanimously on Wednesday to tear down the half-million-dollar colonial house, according to CNN.

While the demolition has not been scheduled, Mary Ann Jacob, chairman for the Newtown Legislative Council, told the news network that it will occur “as soon as is practical.”

The city’s top elected official, Patricia Llodra, told Reuters that she expects the house to come down by the spring.

Lanza shot his sleeping mother at the home before heading to the elementary school, where he killed 26 students and educators in one of the worst school shootings in American history.

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