The house where Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza began his murderous gun rampage has been demolished . Councillors in Newtown , Connecticut , decided to knock down the large , picturesque house on Yogananda Drive , and tear apart its foundations , to stop it being a 'constant reminder ' of Lanza 's brutal 2012 massacre . Lanza , 20 , gunned down his mother , Nancy , inside the home before moving on to the Sandy Hook Elementary School , where he murdered 20 first-graders and six members of staff . Demolition : Police watch as wrecking machinery finishes work on Yogananda Drive in Newtown , Connecticut , where Adam Lanza began the murderous Sandy Hook rampage by killing his own mother . Before : The 3,100-square-foot home was set in two acres of its own land in the exclusive town . Newtown authorities were given the house by the bank which acquired it , and voted to destroy it . Killer : Lanza , pictured above in two photos from some time before the 2012 killing , spent most of his time inside the house after dropping out of school . The killer spent most of his life at the home , which his parents bought in 1998 before they divorced . In the years leading up to the horrific shooting , Lanza spent increasing amounts of time inside its walls , where he spent hours playing video games , and would communicate with his mother by email . An exhaustive report into Lanza 's life by state officials concluded that he was allowed to slip into a 'padded ' world , in which he rarely had contact with the outside world - which may have contributed to the killings . No more : The home , pictured above four days after the December 2012 killing , had already been completely emptied and everything inside burned in the hope of preventing a trade in looted Sandy Hook memorabilia . Gone : Plans by the Newtown council call for the plot to be left empty and greenery planted there . Parents : Nancy Lanza , right , lived with her son in the home . Her ex-husband , Peter Lanza , left , lived in Newtown with them until he divorced Nancy . Lanza , who was on the autism spectrum and had other psychiatric problems , turned on his mother at the start of the December 14 rampage . He then drove to Sandy Hook and rampaged through classrooms , opening fire at young children and the teachers who tried to defend them . Lanza shot himself in the head just as police were arriving at the scene . Once the wreckage of the house , its driveway and foundations are removed , the space will be left empty . Demolition work began Monday , and the house has already been pulled down . Horror : Children are pictured above being led out of the school by their teachers on the day of the massacre . Aftermath : First responders are pictured above at the scene . Lanza shot himself in the head when police arrived . The town was given the 3,100-square-foot home , and its 2-acre lot , by a bank which acquired the property from the Lanzas . Bank officials had already gone inside and incinerated everything they could find , to stop any of the family 's possessions becoming sick memorabilia of the massacre . The decision to rip down the house was made in late January , prompted in part by pleas from haunted neighbors . One , Dave Ackart , said : 'Not only is the property a constant reminder of the evil that resided there - those of us who walk , run , drive , ride or otherwise must pass it multiple times a day , are having a hard time moving on . ' The plans call for the landscaped lot to be leveled later in spring , and new greenery planted . Victims : Pictured above are 25 of Lanza 's victims , including his mother ( bottom right )
3,100sq ft home in Newtown , Connecticut was torn down Monday . Town council , which was given empty home , voted to destroy it . Lanza , 20 , had lived there for 14 years before going on gun rampage . Killed mother Adam Lanza at the address , then went to the school and shot 26 . Newtown residents had complained building was a 'constant reminder '