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.