Newtown High School football team wins championship on anniversary of deadly shooting

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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.

“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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