June 30, 2006 – December 14, 2012

“Six-year-old Jesse Lewis had hot chocolate with his favorite breakfast sandwich — sausage, egg and cheese — at the neighborhood deli before going to school Friday morning. Jesse and his parents were regulars at the Misty Vale Deli in Sandy Hook, Conn., owner Angel Salazar told The Wall Street Journal.” [1]

View a Newtown Bee photo of Jesse Lewis with his grandfather, Bob Comfort. Click the round icon in the bottom right of the photo to see when this photo was taken.

Photo courtesy Scarlett Lewis.

A wake for Jesse Lewis at the Honan Funeral Home clogged the streets of Newtown, a daily occurrence since services for the victims began on Monday. [2]

A women comforts a young girl as mounted police stand outside the wake for 6 year old Jesse Lewis, Photographer Nancy Lane, Thursday, December 20, 2012

Mourners leave the wake for 6-year-old Jesse Lewis at Honan Funeral Home in Newtown, Connecticut Photographer Nancy Lane, Thursday, December 20, 2012

Police motorcycles escort the hearse carrying the body Jesse Lewis as it drives by the funeral in progress of his classmate Ben Wheeler. [3]

The hearse carrying the body Jesse Lewis was offered a large police escort [4]
A New Castle police officer rides on a motorcycle alongside the boy’s hearse.

The community of Stamford is the site of the new playground dedicated to Jesse Lewis. On December 14, 2012, Victoria Soto had hidden some of her students in the closet and in cabinets. Adam Lanza had shot and killed Victoria Soto when his gun jammed. Jesse yelled at his fellow classmates, “RUN!” At least six of his classmates bolted and escaped. Lanza reloaded and shot Jesse in the head. [5]

“He is survived by his mother, Scarlett Lewis, his brother, JT Lewis, his father, Neil Heslin, his grandparents, Maureen Lewis, Bob Comfort, and David Lewis, his uncles, aunts and cousins, Trent, Sasha and Hayden Lewis, Jordan, Becky, Christian and Everett Lewis, Coulter, Kristy and Quinn Lewis and as many dear friends as the stars.” [6]

Scarlett Lewis, in the gray skirt, speaks with a child during the construction of a playground at West Beach in Stamford in honor of her son, Jesse, who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012. (Courtesy Maureen Clark)

🖥 Playground Dedicated to Jesse Lewis at West Beach

[1] The Newtown Shooting Victims: Who They Were, https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/The-Newtown-Shooting-Victims-Who-They-Were-183658461.html; retrieved 12/13/2017

[2] Slain first grader Jesse Lewis, 6, given hero’s police escort as he and two other classmates are laid to rest, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2251234/Sandy-Hook-Elementary-school-shooting-Five-murdered-Connecticut-laid-rest.html; retrieved 1/1/2018

[3] Slain first grader Jesse Lewis, 6, given hero’s police escort as he and two other classmates are laid to rest, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2251234/Sandy-Hook-Elementary-school-shooting-Five-murdered-Connecticut-laid-rest.html; retrieved 1/1/2018

[4] Slain first grader Jesse Lewis, 6, given hero’s police escort as he and two other classmates are laid to rest, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2251234/Sandy-Hook-Elementary-school-shooting-Five-murdered-Connecticut-laid-rest.html; retrieved 1/1/2018

[5] Michael Zennie, The 6-year-old Sandy Hook hero: New report reveals Jesse Lewis saved six classmates by telling them to run when Adam Lanza’s gun ran out of bullets but was shot dead for his bravery when the killer reloaded, Daily Mail, 10/18/2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2466582/Sandy-Hook-school-shooting-Jesse-Lewis-6-killed-telling-classmates-run.html; retrieved 1/5/2018

[6] Jesse Lewis, News Times, http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/newstimes/obituary.aspx?pid=161794161; retrieved 1/3/2018