Victoria Soto, 27, placed students into a closet and ... the parent of a girl who was in Soto’s class two years ago, tells PEOPLE. Ali calls Soto a “vibrant woman who loved the kids and ...

(CBSNewYork) - Sandy Hook Elementary School first grade teacher Victoria Soto has been hailed ... enrolled in Sandy Hook, one in Ms. Soto's class. "She was an absolutely amazing teacher.

The kids told the officer what had happened. "She tried to save her class," he said of Victoria Soto. She was shot not far from her desk, from which she had hung drawings on which her students had ...

And thus, on Wednesday, Victoria Leigh Soto was laid to rest at Union Cemetery ... high school colors – positioned in the shape of her class year, ’03. Her graduating class is expected to ...

Victoria "Vicki" Soto blared her favorite Michael Buble Christmas ... Vicki Soto died at 27 protecting her first grade class after a gunman burst into the school killing 20 children and six ...

When Victoria Soto heard gunfire ricocheting off the normally ... Instead, the 27-year-old teacher gathered her first-grade class into the closet and bravely placed herself between the young ...