Officials in Newtown, Connecticut will vote whether to demolish the home where the gunman responsible for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting lived.
The Associated Press reported that the Newtown Legislative Council is expected to vote Wednesday evening on a proposal regarding tearing down the now-vacant house.
The property was given to the town by the Hudson City Savings Bank last December. It was appraised at $523,000.
“The best thing we can do to honor the families is to demolish the house,” Patricia Llodra, Newtown’s most senior elected official told Reuters.
On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza, 20, shot and killed his mother in that single family colonial-style home he shared with her. He then left the house and for reasons unknown, went to the Sandy Hook school and carried out a massacre, which left 20 first-grade children and six faculty members dead. When first responders arrived on the scene, Lanza killed himself with a single gunshot wound to his head.
The mass shooting was the second deadliest by a single person in U.S. history behind the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School building where the shooting occurred has since been demolished.