Friday marks the six-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that left 20 children and six educators dead.
The shooting in Newtown, Conn., shook the community and went down in history as one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.
The students were six to seven years old when the shooting took their lives. Today, they would have been teenagers or pre-teens.
Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy ordered U.S. and State of Connecticut flags to fly at half-staff on Friday, Dec. 14 in remembrance of the massacre.
Governor Malloy tweeted his thoughts and reflected on the tragic event.
“The heartache we feel for those whose lives were taken all too soon will never leave, and our sympathy for each and every family member who lost a loved one will forever remain,” Malloy said in a thread of tweets Friday.
Malloy continued his tweets and lists out the names and ages of all the people’s lives taken on this day in 2012.
The school was evacuated for a bomb threat on the six-year anniversary, Newtown police said. It's unclear whether the threat was related to the bomb threats made nationwide Thursday.
The school where the 2012 shooting happened was knocked down and a new building was constructed at the same site.
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