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Photos: Sandy Hook gunman Adam Lanza’s home demolished to erase all traces of the killer

Shortly after the shooting, detectives searching the home found that Lanza and his mother kept a large arsenal of rifles, pistols and other weapons, including swords.

Shortly after the shooting, detectives searching the home found that Lanza and his mother kept a large arsenal of rifles, pistols and other weapons, including swords.  (Don Emmert / AFP/Getty Images)

Demolition workers tore down the Newtown, Conn., home where gunman Adam Lanza planned the school massacre that killed 26 people, including 20 children, more than two years ago.

Erasing all traces of a killer

The school where the massacre took place was also torn down.   (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Erasing all traces of a killer

The demolition was part of a town effort to erase all traces of the killer, who killed himself in a school hallway as police responded to the shooting.  (Jason DeCrow / Associated Press)

Erasing all traces of a killer

The community saw the home as a painful reminder of the Dec. 14, 2012 massacre.  (Autumn Driscoll / Associated Press)

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Erasing all traces of a killer

According to authorities, a motive behind the shooting is still unknown.  (Autumn Driscoll / Associated Press)

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