BEFORE THE NIGHTMARE:Victoria Soto and co-teacher Anne Marie Murphy join their first-grade students in an official class photo taken last fall. Those labeled were gunned down in the Dec. 14 ...

Professor Leslie Ricklin noticed it early on. Victoria Soto was different than the other teacher candidates in Ricklin’s social-studies methods course at Eastern Connecticut State University.… ...

Victoria Soto, 27, a first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., ushered her students into a closet, and in so doing placed her body between them and the assailant.

Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher Victoria Soto tried to save her students by telling gunman Adam Lanza that her first-grade class had gone to the auditorium on the other side of the school in ...

NEWTOWN, Conn. (CBSNewYork) - Sandy Hook Elementary School first grade teacher Victoria Soto has been hailed a hero for giving her own life to shield her young students from the gunfire on Friday ...

Only 27, with so much to live for, Victoria Soto responded the way a parent would. As anyone with a son or daughter understands, a parent responds to danger by protecting the brood at all costs.

Mourners attend the funeral service of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, teacher victim Victoria Soto, outside Lordship Community Church, in Stratford, Connecticut, December 19, 2012.

Victoria "Vicki" Soto blared her favorite Michael Buble Christmas album from her car as she drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012. Her uncle discovered the radio playing as loudly ...

Victoria Soto, 27, was a first-grade teacher killed when 20-year-old Adam Lanza burst into her classroom. It wasn't clear how the children escaped harm, but there have been reports that Soto hid ...

The poster Maleeha Ali made said it all. "Miss Vicki Soto - 1st Grade" was colorfully written above a picture of the teacher who died protecting her first-grade students Friday. Ali, now a third ...