Sandy Hook Gunman's Home Demolished
The home of the man who carried out the Sandy Hook school massacre has been demolished.
The 3,100 sq ft house in Newtown, Connecticut, that Adam Lanza shared with his mother was torn down on Tuesday.
Newtown officials voted unanimously in January to raze the home and leave the two-acre property vacant.
Trucks were seen delivering dirt on Tuesday to fill the space where the home stood.
"I'm very happy that they knocked it down," local resident Dorothy Dwyer told WFSB-TV.
"It's only a bad memory and we have people stopping there that really shouldn't stop there and its a nice area and those people deserve to have privacy."
Lanza shot dead his mother, Nancy Lanza, inside the home on 14 December 2012 before driving to Sandy Hook Elementary School, where he killed 20 children and six school workers.
The 20-year-old committed suicide as police arrived at the scene.
Investigators found an array of weapons inside the Lanza home, including guns, swords and knives.
The house was given to the town by the bank that acquired it from the Lanza family, and neighbours pleaded with officials to tear it down.
One resident called it "a constant reminder of the evil that resided there".
In January, Newtown First Selectwoman Pat Llodra said attorneys added a stipulation to the deed that prohibited the town from profiting from any future sale or development of the land.
"Any proceeds, should the property ever be developed, would be for the benefit of the victims," she said.
The Lanza family moved from southern New Hampshire and bought the new house in 1998.
