Crews Demolish Home Where Newtown School Shooter Lived Published March 24, 2015 • Updated on March 25, 2015 at 4:23 am The Newtown home of the man who killed 20 first graders and six staff members in a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012 has been demolished. All that now remains at 36 Yogananda Street, where Adam Lanza lived with his mother Nancy, is a lot of land, which is expected to remain as open space. On Dec. 14, 2012, Adam Lanza shot his mother at the house before heading to Sandy Hook, where he carried out the massacre and then committed suicide, according to police.