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Demolition of Newtown school massacre site begins

Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., is scheduled to be torn down to make way for a new building on the same property.

Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., is scheduled to be torn down to make way for a new building on the same property.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

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Sandy Hook, where 20 first-graders and six employees were gunned down in Connecticut last year, will be torn down. A new school is to be built in its place.

Newtown, Conn.

The entrance to Sandy Hook Elementary School has security at the front gate. Sandy Hook Elementary School is scheduled to be torn down this month to make way for a new building on the same property. The decision was approved in a town referendum held on Oct. 5.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Newtown, Conn.

Signs around town of the grief felt after the shooting on Dec. 14, 2012, that left 20 elementary children and six school employees dead. This memorial was set up a block from the school soon after the shooting occurred. It remains in place.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Newtown, Conn.

A school bus goes by the sign for the town of Sandy Hook on Oct. 21. Since the school shooting, all the students have been bused to a nearby school.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Newtown, Conn.

There are still signs around town of the grief felt after the shooting on Dec. 14, 2012, that left 20 elementary children and six school employees dead.  (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

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