10 Years After Sandy Hook, This Hero Student’s Mother Is Still Fighting for Change

Dec 14 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty/Courtesy of Scarlett Lewis

On the 10th anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, we are left with an elemental lesson in how to live taught by 6-year-old Jesse Lewis in his final moments.

The gunman had murdered the principal and a guidance counselor in the hallway of the Newtown, Connecticut, school before bursting into Jesse’s classroom, firing an assault rifle. Jesse’s teacher, Virginia Soto, had just...

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