The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it would award an approximately $1.5 million grant to reimburse organizations that provided relief to first responders and families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
“This funding will provide critical support to the brave women and men who responded to the devastating violence at Sandy Hook Elementary School, as well as the counselors and others who are helping the community to recover,” Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. “One year after the senseless violence in Newtown, we continue to mourn the innocent children and selfless adults who were taken from us on that terrible day.”
The announcement came in the wake of the first anniversary of the Dec. 14 shooting in Newtown, Conn. The grant from the Justice Department’s Office for Victims of Crime will go towards “costs incurred by those organizations that provided crisis intervention services, trauma-informed care, select victim-related law enforcement support and costs incurred in moving students from Sandy Hook to a new school location,” according to a press release.
