This sweet smiling girl's name is Victoria Soto. She could become a wonderful teacher, get married, have children and be happy mom... But this is what they wrote in the funds mass media December 14, 2012, we provide information from different sources, but be that as it may - Victoria is a Hero of Our Time!
This is Victoria Soto. Today she died a hero. When she heard the shots, she hid 16 first-graders in closets. When the shooter came to her class, Victoria told him that her students were in the gym. The killer shot her and moved on. She saved the lives of all her students. Please pass this on to others. Victoria deserves to be remembered for her bravery. If not for her, there would have been 16 more victims...
This is Victoria Soto. She died a hero today. She hid her first graders in the cabinets and closets after hearing the gunfire. When the shooter came to her classroom, she told him that her students were in the gym. He then gunned her down and moved on. She saved the lives of all of her students. Please pass this on if you see it. She deserves to be remembered for her bravery.
As it became known after the shooting, 27-year-old first-grade teacher Victoria Soto took as many children as she could into the utility room, and then covered them with her body. The woman died from the killer's bullets.
In addition, two more teachers died while trying to save their students - 47-year-old Dawn Hochsprung and 57-year-old Mary Sherlach.
Subsequently, one of the school students - an eight-year-old boy - spoke about how another teacher dragged him into the classroom from a corridor through which bullets whistled. (http://www.news2day.ru)
As a relative of teacher Victoria Soto told ABC News, she tried to take the children to cover at the sound of gunfire and came face to face with the armed Adam Lanza. Soto stepped between him and the children, after which Lanza shot her and opened fire on the children.
Students told reporters that Soto had a habit of chewing gum in class. This is usually forbidden to teachers, and the teacher was often teased about it. (http://news.bigmir.net)
During carnage at a Connecticut school hosted by Adam Lantz, teacher primary classes Victoria Soto shielded her children from the killer's bullets.
As TSN reports with reference to The Daily Telegraph, before the shooter broke into her classroom, the woman hid the students in the back room and remained in the classroom. When Lantz entered the room, Soto said that all the children were in the gym and rushed at the shooter, who immediately killed her. In total, there were 16 students in Victoria Soto's class.
“I spoke to Vicky recently. She said she loves all 16 little angels she teaches. She said that she never wanted to let them go,” said one of the teacher’s friends. (http://glavred.info)
She took the shot herself and saved the children.
Relatives of teacher Victoria Soto said on Sunday that she shielded her students from a maniac shooter who opened fire at a school in Connecticut.
For your a brave deed Soto paid with her life. But this is the only way the 27-year-old girl could save her first-graders from the enraged killer Adam Lanza and become a hero.
“The family was told that she had locked them in the toilet in an attempt to protect the children,” he told the Daily News. cousin Wiki Jim Wiltsie. “She shielded the students from the killer.”
According to Wiltsey, about Vicki Soto's heroic act in primary school Sandy Hook was told to her relatives by the police.
“I am very proud to say that she a real hero" says Wiltsey, who is a police officer in Fairfield County, Connecticut. “Vicky wouldn’t have done anything differently.” Her professional instinct kicked in and her acquired skills helped. She acted as she was taught, and also as her heart told her. And when you know this, it becomes a little easier for all of us, relatives.”
“It’s very difficult to go through all this emotionally at once,” he continues, “it’s still hard to believe that all this happened.”
According to him, the relatives are completely crushed by grief also because the girl died just before Christmas.
“She simply adored her family, they were all very friendly,” says Wiltsie, “and she was generally their leader, everything revolved around her. They just held a Secret Santa approx. translation). She was always the instigator and set it all up.”
Soto lived with her parents, sisters and brother in Stratford, Connecticut. Their modest 1.5-storey traditional house with a gable roof is located in a working-class area. Vicky was single, kept busy with her black Labrador, Roxy, and was a good member of her local Lordship Community Church.
Her mother, Donna, worked as a nurse at Bridgeport Hospital for 30 years. Father Carlos works as a crane operator in transport department state.
Vicky, as everyone called her, was her father's favorite. And it was he who had the sad fate of being present at the identification of his daughter’s body.
“All he talked about was her,” says Gary Verbanic, a colleague of the grief-stricken father, “you wouldn’t believe how much he loved her, he doted on her. I constantly talked to her on the phone and was happy.”
“I’m terribly sorry, such grief,” continues Verbanich, “she was a wonderful person.”
And a neighbor of the Soto family also thinks the charming brunette was “very pretty.”
“When I hurt my back, she came and helped me hobble home,” says George Henderson, 55. “She might not have come, she didn’t have to. I was young, my whole life was ahead of me.”
According to Henderson, the only thing Vicki didn't like was the long commute to work in Newton. “It’s sad that I’ll never hear her start her car in the morning again,” he laments.
Soto worked at the school for 5 years, and the students simply adored her. She called them little angels and was touched when the little devils sitting in them sometimes chewed gum in class, although the children themselves knew that this was not allowed at school.
The police have not yet released the girl's body to the family, so no funeral preparations have yet begun. But Wiltsey says he wants people to know about Vicki now, before she's buried and forgotten.
“I want to tell everything,” he says, “before it becomes a statistic or just a number on paper. I want people to know about her actions and what she went to for these children.”
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Tragedy at a US school: dead teacher Victoria Soto saved 16 first-graders
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From three to 11 gunshot wounds were found on the victims' bodies. The criminal finished off the wounded.
Parents of surviving children remember the 27-year-old teacher with gratitude Victoria Soto. Hearing the shots, she ordered the children to lock themselves in the toilet, according to other sources - in the wardrobe. She told the killer who came in that all the children were in the gym. The young girl was killed at point-blank range, The Daily Telegraph reports.
American media quote the words of people who knew her. Children loved Victoria very much, despite her youth and short work experience at Sandy Hook School - only three years.
School Principal and school psychologist went to the killer to protect their students. Another teacher helped the children leave the building as they climbed out through the windows. Today the media quotes the words of witnesses. “I told them to sit quietly, very quietly,” says teacher Caitlin Roig. “Because I was so scared that if he came in, he might hear us and just start shooting through the door. I said we had to sit very, very quietly.” And I said that there, outside, bad people, and we have to wait until they come good people and they will save us."
Classmates of future killer Adam Lanza remember him as a shy boy. According to them, he was afraid of the team and was always on his own. In the graduation photo album, in the place where his portrait should be, there is an inscription: “He is camera shy.” According to other people, he was very smart and intelligent, he studied well, Vesti.Ru reports details.
Today it became known what helped to avoid more victims. When the criminal entered the school, the guard ran down the main corridor, warning everyone of the danger.Many teachers quickly reacted and locked the doors to their classrooms, thereby protecting themselves and their children. In addition, one of the school employees turned on the sound warning system. The sounds of shooting coming through the loudspeakers warned everyone of the danger, RIA Novosti reported on the progress of the crime investigation.
In connection with the incident, four days of mourning have been declared in the United States. Above diplomatic missions in American capital flags are at half-staff.
This sweet smiling girl's name is Victoria Soto. She could become a wonderful teacher, get married, have children and be a happy mother... But this is what was written in the media on December 14, 2012, we provide information from various sources, but be that as it may - Victoria is a Hero of Our Time!
This is Victoria Soto. Today she died a hero. When she heard the shots, she hid 16 first-graders in closets. When the shooter came to her class, Victoria told him that her students were in the gym. The killer shot her and moved on. She saved the lives of all her students. Please pass this on to others. Victoria deserves to be remembered for her bravery. If not for her, there would have been 16 more victims...
This is Victoria Soto. She died a hero today. She hid her first graders in the cabinets and closets after hearing the gunfire. When the shooter came to her classroom, she told him that her students were in the gym. He then gunned her down and moved on. She saved the lives of all of her students. Please pass this on if you see it. She deserves to be remembered for her bravery.
As it became known after the shooting, 27-year-old first-grade teacher Victoria Soto took as many children as she could into the utility room, and then covered them with her body. The woman died from the killer's bullets.
In addition, two more teachers died while trying to save their students - 47-year-old Dawn Hochsprung and 57-year-old Mary Sherlach.
Subsequently, one of the school students - an eight-year-old boy - spoke about how another teacher dragged him into the classroom from a corridor through which bullets whistled. (http://www.news2day.ru)
As a relative of teacher Victoria Soto told ABC News, she tried to take the children to cover at the sound of gunfire and came face to face with the armed Adam Lanza. Soto stepped between him and the children, after which Lanza shot her and opened fire on the children.
Students told reporters that Soto had a habit of chewing gum in class. This is usually forbidden to teachers, and the teacher was often teased about it. (http://news.bigmir.net)
During the Connecticut school massacre perpetrated by Adam Lantz, elementary school teacher Victoria Soto shielded her children from the killer's bullets.
As TSN reports with reference to The Daily Telegraph, before the shooter broke into her classroom, the woman hid the students in the back room and remained in the classroom. When Lantz entered the room, Soto said that all the children were in the gym and rushed at the shooter, who immediately killed her. In total, there were 16 students in Victoria Soto's class.
“I spoke to Vicky recently. She said she loves all 16 little angels she teaches. She said that she never wanted to let them go,” said one of the teacher’s friends. (http://glavred.info)
