Hartford TV station to stay away from Sandy Hook on one-year anniversary

The one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School murders in Newtown, Conn., is Dec. 14 and one Hartford television station has agreed to honor the community's request and stay away:

December 14, 2013 will be a somber day in Newtown, and town leaders are hoping people there can reflect, pray, and cry in private. Sunday on Face the State on WFSB, First selectman Pat Llodra asked all members of the media to stay away on that day.

“We are on a grief journey and we are healing and the media can be an impediment to that healing because it creates some barriers that are difficult for our community.”

WFSB management has announced the Eyewitness News team will not be in Newtown on December 14th. Instead, each day leading up to the 14th, we have been profiling those who died in the shooting.