Families of Newtown shooting victims sue gun manufacturer

REUTERS

11 years ago

A Bushmaster rifle belonging to Sandy Hook Elementary school gunman Adam Lanza in Newtown, Connecticut is seen after its recovery at the school in this police evidence photo released by the state’s attorney’s office November 25, 2013. (REUTERS/Connecticut Department of Justice/Handout via Reuters)

A photo of Sandy Hook Elementary school gunman Adam Lanza is seen in his bedroom in Newtown, Connecticut in this police evidence photo released by the state’s attorney’s office November 25, 2013. (REUTERS/Connecticut Department of Justice/Handout via Reuters)

The house where Adam Lanza lived with his mother Nancy Lanza is seen in Newtown, Connecticut December 14, 2014. Parents of almost half the young children killed by gunman Adam Lanza at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, two years ago on Sunday have taken initial steps toward filing lawsuits tied to one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. For a second straight year the leafy suburb has planned no public events to commemorate the massacre, which left 20 first graders and six educators dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School, an incident that inflamed the U.S. debate over gun control. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif)

The families of nine people killed in an attack on a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school in 2012 filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on Monday against the company that manufactured the gun used in the attack, the Hartford Courant reported.

The suit named gunmaker Bushmaster, a distributor and the local retailer that sold the weapon used by 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza to kill 20 first-graders and six educators in a Dec. 14, 2012, attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Families of nine victims and a 10th person who was wounded filed the suit in state court, the Courant reported.

Bushmaster did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Lanza, who began the shooting spree by killing his mother at their home, ended his rampage by turning his gun on himself as he heard police approaching.