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Friday, Oct. 22, 2021

Did the FBI say there were no killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012?

Christiana Dillard, Lead Stories
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Social media is pointing to data from the FBI's Crime in the U.S. 2012 publication, which lists zero murders in Newtown, Connecticut, where Sandy Hook Elementary School was located.

However, the figures in those data were reported under the Uniform Crime Reporting program by the law agencies handling the cases. 

In this case, Connecticut State Police, the agency that handled the mass shooting, submitted the appropriate data to the FBI at a later date. 

The killings are included in the FBI Crime Data Explorer, which is updated more frequently than the annual Crime in the U.S. publication series.

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