Sandy Hook kin split $1.5 million

HARTFORD — The families of 16 victims of the Sandy Hook School shooting will receive about $94,000 each to settle a pair of lawsuits against the estate of the shooter’s mother, Nancy Lanza.

Documents filed Monday in Probate Court show that the families have agreed to equally divide a $1.5 million homeowner’s insurance policy that Lanza had on the Newtown home she shared with her son, Adam Lanza.

Each family will get $93,750, records show.

The lawsuits were filed by the families of 14 of those who died in the massacre and two who survived.

On Dec. 14, 2012, Adam Lanza walked into the Sandy Hook Elementary School and gunned down 26 people, including 20 first-graders, using a Bushmaster AR-15 assault weapon that his mother had purchased legally. He had already killed his mother before going to the school.

The lawsuits made essentially the same claim: that Nancy Lanza purchased the Bushmaster and kept it in her home, where her 20-year-old housebound son had access to it.