NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) – Neighbors have been pleading with town officials to tear down the home of mass murderer Adam Lanza, with one resident saying it’s “a constant reminder of the evil that resided there.”
Inside the large yellow house with green shutters is where Lanza shot his mother to death Dec. 14, 2012, before killing 20 first-graders and six educators at nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School. He then committed suicide.
The Newtown Legislative Council is voting Wednesday night on a proposal recommended by the board of selectmen to raze the 3,100-square-foot home and keep the land as open space.
Amy DeLoughy, whose house sits across the street, wrote to the council that her children’s bus stop had to be moved because it was too scary for the kids to wait near the house.
Ian and Nicole Hockley, whose 6-year-old son, Dylan, died in the shooting, have said they moved out of the neighborhood because seeing that house across the way was too painful for them.