Newtown High School football team wins championship on anniversary of deadly shooting
The Newtown (Ct.) High School football team won the Class LL state championship on Saturday, the 7th anniversary of 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary.
A last-second 36-yard touchdown pass lifted the Nighthawks to a 13-7 victory over Darien High School.
WOW! Holy crap. Newtown wins the CLASSS LL title 13-7 over Darien I’m the final play Jack Street hits Riley Ward for 36-yard TD #cthsfb
Newtown’s first state title since 1992 pic.twitter.com/BfSMc0rNIy
— Pete Paguaga (@PetePaguaga) December 14, 2019
“It was surreal,” Pete Paguaga, a senior producer at Hearst Connecticut Media told CNN. “It was a movie ending. I’m still searching for words to process what I saw.”
Twenty-six people, including 20 students were killed after a 20-year-old gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary armed with several guns and opened fire.
The tragedy sparked a nationwide debate on gun violence.
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