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.

Victoria Soto, 27, made the ultimate sacrifice inside her classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School last month after madman Adam Lanza burst inside with an assault rifle.

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 ...

STRATFORD -- Victoria Soto, 27, who has been hailed as the hero teacher whose decisive action saved countless children's lives was so popular her funeral ran out of programs even though 600 were ...

She took a bullet for her kids. Teacher Victoria Soto used her body to shield her students from the maniacal gunman who launched a massacre at a Connecticut school, relatives said Saturday. Soto pa… ...

The outside of the Victoria Soto School in Stratford, Connecticut, has a big mosaic mural with tiles designed by the Soto family that depicts the Puerto Rican teacher's favorite animal: flamingos.

They had to bury Vicki Soto on Wednesday and took care in doing so. Soto -- her full name was Victoria Leigh Soto -- lived in Stratford, Conn., about a 40-minute drive from Sandy Hook Elementary ...

The town council voted Monday to name a new elementary school in memory of Victoria Soto, a young teacher and resident who was killed in the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown. Soto, 27 ...

STRATFORD -- Victoria Soto, 27, who has been hailed as the hero teacher whose decisive action saved countless children's lives was so popular her funeral ran out of programs even though 600 were ...

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 ...