Dive Brief:
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Residents of Newtown, CT, on Tuesday authorized the town’s Board of Selectmen to raze the home of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter Adam Lanza, and a construction company in neighboring Plainville has offered to do the $30,000 job for free.
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Town officials are considering the offer from site development firm Manafort Brothers, which employs several Newtown residents, to tear down the 3,100-square foot Colonial home. Lanza lived there with his mother, whom he shot and killed on Dec. 14, 2012, before going on a shooting rampage at the elementary school, where he killed 26 people.
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The bank that held the home’s mortgage turned the $523,000 property over to town officials, who had proposed demolishing it after hearing from Lanza’s neighbors and the families of his victims.
Dive Insight:
The town, which demolished the school and removed all traces of it in October 2013, reportedly paid $1.4 million for the work. Construction of a replacement school is scheduled to begin in March. That $50 million project will be funded by the state.