Details of the tragedy that took place on December 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, have become known... During the massacre carried out by 20-year-old Adam Lanza, a young teacher, Victoria Soto, sacrificed her life to save her students, ABC reports...A 27-year-old teacher, hearing that a killer was approaching her class, hid 16 students in a small closet. She told the shooter that the children were in another place. In response, A. Lenza killed the teacher...School principal Dawn Hochsprung also tried to stop the killer. She came out to the sounds of shots and rushed to A. Lenza, but was killed...All six adults killed at Sandy Hook were women...

Details of A. Lenza’s murder of his mother also became known. Nancy Lanza, who worked as a teacher at Sandy Hook, was killed by her son in her own bedroom. He shot her in the head four times. He then grabbed her gun and drove to school in her car.

It was previously reported that N. Lenza was an active weapons collector and owned at least five weapons. She also took her children to the shooting range with her.

The Newtown tragedy sparked a heated debate in the United States about the need to limit gun sales. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and members of the Democratic Party in the US Congress and Senate announced the need to introduce appropriate amendments.

The petition of US citizens to restrict the sale of weapons was signed by 120 thousand people, while at least 25 thousand people are needed for its consideration by the presidential office.

Barack Obama himself, after the massacres in Arizona and Colorado, who had not demonstrated a strong desire to change legislation in the field of gun sales, said that the situation could change.

Let us remind you that on the morning of December 14, Adam Lanza, after killing his own mother, went to the school where she taught, and there he killed 20 children and six adults. Hearing the sirens of approaching police cars, A. Lenza committed suicide by shooting himself in the head...

The school teacher became a national heroine...

Parents of surviving schoolchildren remember with gratitude 27-year-old teacher Victoria Soto, who sacrificed herself for the sake of her students...

She was only 27. She taught school for three years and worked on advanced training at Southern Connecticut State University. She loved books, rooted for the New York Yankees, and adored her Labrador, Roxy. Now the name of this simple girl, who overnight became a national heroine, flashes across all international media. She saved other people's lives at the cost of her own. As the shooter approached Room 10 Friday morning, elementary school teacher Victoria Soto gathered her students and hid them. She lied to the criminal, saying they were in a different location. In response, the killer shot the girl at point-blank range. Despite the horror of the tragedy, Vicki’s cousin would later say: “She did what she thought was right and necessary to protect the children.” Because there was no other way. Both her colleagues and the school principal knew about this, and they showed unprecedented courage in the face of danger. The victims included six Sandy Hook teachers.

“The school director herself came out to the killer to protect her students, and the school psychologist did the same. Another teacher helped the children leave the building - they climbed out through the windows. People did incredible things, they behaved like real heroes,” said school superintendent Jennette Robinson.

Caitlin Roig, teacher: “I told them to sit quietly, very quietly. I was terribly afraid that if he came in, he might hear us and just start shooting through the door. I said that we should sit very, very quietly. And I said that there are bad people outside, and we need to wait until good people come and save us.”

Twelve girls and eight boys aged six and seven. A forensic examination showed that the children were finished off. The parents identified the bodies by drawings, so the police tried to minimize the consequences of the shock, but this is unlikely to have helped much.

“I don’t know, I just don’t know how to get through this. My wife and I simply don’t understand how to find the strength to live on. We hope that our faith and our family will support us,” said the father of one of the victims of the massacre, Robbie Parker.

Six-year-old Emily Parker, the eldest of Robbie's three daughters, could, according to her father, light up a room with her mere presence.

When the shooting rang out at school, Ben Paley and his nine-year-old twin brother were on opposite sides of the building. Both were lucky - the killer did not reach them.

Ben Paley, Sandy Hook School student: “At first we thought it was some kind of animal. And the sounds that we heard were not at all like the shots of our military or police weapons. We all hid in our teacher's office. We later learned that many students were injured, including a couple of our friends.”

The shooter, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, arrived at his former school immediately after killing his own mother. He took her car and grabbed at least three guns from her arsenal. No one can still understand what motivated the teenager. No one suspected that he had any mental problems.

“He was a bright child, very smart and intelligent, and a good student. Nothing, literally nothing, gave reason to think that there was something wrong with him,” said James McDade, a neighbor of the Lanza family, shocked by the incident.

Meanwhile, the Daily News, citing psychiatrists, claims that he was unstable, suffered from Asperger's syndrome - a rare form of autism - and was a "time bomb" that was bound to explode sooner or later. Apparently, there were prerequisites for this.

Marina Bardyshevskaya, Candidate of Psychological Sciences: “This is an intelligent person who understands all schemes and models well, who simply remains emotionally cold and stupid all his life. Of course, there is a genetic predisposition, but it cannot be said that a person with Asperger's syndrome will necessarily grow up into a maniac. But if there is an unfavorable situation in the family, this is possible.”

All last night they carried flowers to the site of the tragedy. At the entrance to the school, candles were burning and prayers were being said. The day before, Barack Obama addressed words of condolences to the families of the victims. The president himself spoke about the sad statistics: “Over the past few years, our nation has experienced several similar tragedies. Newton Elementary School, a shopping mall in Oregon, a house of worship in Wisconsin, a movie theater in Colorado, countless corners in places like Chicago and Philadelphia. This could happen in our city at any moment. That’s why we need to come together and take constructive measures together to avoid similar tragedies in the future.”

It is not yet known what measures exactly will be taken. On Sunday, a shopping center in California was added to the list of those “under fire.” The attacker, a 42-year-old man, managed to fire more than 50 shots in the store parking lot. The police have arrested the perpetrator and his motives are currently being investigated. Despite the fact that this time no one was hurt, in light of recent events, soon even the crackling sound of a car exhaust pipe will be able to provoke panic among Americans...

Restricting the sale of weapons... The Americans demanded the adoption of a law... Once again...

The tragedy at an elementary school in Connecticut has renewed the debate in the United States about the need to pass a law that would restrict the sale of weapons. On Sunday, several members of Congress spoke out in favor of this, and a corresponding petition was published on the White House website.

The importance that Americans attach to this issue is evidenced by the fact that in just three days the petition was signed by 123 thousand people. According to existing rules in the United States, in order for such documents to be accepted for consideration by the government, 25 thousand signatures are required.

“The purpose of this petition is to force the administration of President Barack Obama to pass legislation restricting access to firearms. Laws are the only way to reduce the number of deaths associated with it,” the document says. It is called "a collective demand to conduct an inter-party dialogue, which should ultimately lead to /the emergence/ of a legislative package regulating citizens' access to weapons." The authors of the petition call on the US Congress to “act on the basis of public law.”

Some legislators, in turn, on Sunday also spoke out in favor of introducing certain bans. In particular, influential Senator Dianne Feinstein announced her intention to introduce a bill next year that would prohibit the sale of weapons “magazines” and machine gun belts with more than ten rounds of ammunition. “It’s entirely possible to do this,” she says.

For his part, independent Senator Joseph Lieberman, representing the state of Connecticut, proposed creating a national commission that would study legislation on the right to bear arms, as well as the question of the influence of the role of video games and movies on the psyche of those who carry out mass murders.

This idea was also supported by Richard Durbin, who is the “number two” of the Democratic faction in the Senate. He drew attention to the strong position of the gun lobby in Washington and noted that “we need the support of ordinary Americans who would unite and calmly think about how far we have come in this situation.”

As reported from New York by the correspondent. ITAR-TASS Daniil Studnev, the mayor of this metropolis, Michael Bloomberg, said on Sunday that ending violence in the United States associated with the presence of firearms in the population should become a priority in Obama's policy.

“There are several policy solutions that we can put into effect today. It's time for Washington to act," he said. “The tragedy in Newtown is just the latest in a series of violence that will happen again and again,” the mayor added.

In the United States, 4 days of mourning continues for those killed in the city of Newtown (Connecticut). On Friday, 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 27 people there, including 20 children aged 6-7, before killing himself. President Barack Obama flew to the city to meet with the families of the victims. He is expected to attend an interfaith memorial service in the evening.

Corr. ITAR-TASS Daniil Studnev also reported that at the Newtown school where the shooter carried out the massacre, according to a statement from investigators, 30 empty automatic rifle magazines were found.

“Most of the people were killed with the Bushmaster AR-15 automatic rifle. “30 empty magazines and hundreds of bullet casings were found at the school,” one of the investigators said. The police also revealed some details of the crime. “After killing 27 people, Lanza shot himself in the head,” a state police spokesman said...

Based on materials... /www.rbc.ru/ /www.vesti.ru/ /www.itar-tass.com/

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.

Soto paid for her courageous act 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 closet in an attempt to protect the children," Vicki's cousin Jim Wiltsie told the Daily News. “She shielded the students from the killer.”

According to Wiltsey, police told her relatives about Vicki Soto's heroic act at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

"I'm very proud to say she's a true hero," said 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 ringleader, 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 for the state transportation department.

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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And he will thank those who participated in saving the children. Parents of surviving students remember with gratitude 27-year-old teacher Victoria Soto, who sacrificed herself for the sake of her students.

She was only 27. She taught school for three years and worked on advanced training at Southern Connecticut State University. She loved books, rooted for the New York Yankees, and adored her Labrador, Roxy. Now the name of this simple girl, who overnight became a national heroine, flashes across all international media. She saved other people's lives at the cost of her own. As the shooter approached Room 10 Friday morning, elementary school teacher Victoria Soto gathered her students and hid them. She lied to the criminal, saying they were in a different location. In response, the killer shot the girl at point-blank range. Despite the horror of the tragedy, Vicky’s cousin would later say: “She did what she thought was right and necessary to protect the children.” Because there was no other way. Both her colleagues and the school principal knew about this, and they showed unprecedented courage in the face of danger. The victims included six Sandy Hook teachers.

“The school director herself went to the killer to protect her students, and the school psychologist did the same. Another teacher helped the children leave the building - they climbed out through the windows. People did incredible things, they behaved like real heroes,” said the school inspector Jennette Robinson.

Caitlin Roig, teacher: "I told them to sit quietly, very quietly. I was terribly afraid that if he came in, he might hear us and just start shooting through the door. I said we should sit very, very quietly. And I said “that there are bad people outside, and we need to wait until good people come and save us.”

Twelve girls and eight boys aged six and seven. A forensic examination showed that the children were finished off. The parents identified the bodies by drawings, so the police tried to minimize the consequences of the shock, but this is unlikely to have helped much.

“I don’t know, I just don’t know how to get through this. My wife and I just don’t understand how to find the strength to live on. We hope that our faith and our family will support us,” said the father of one of the victims of the massacre, Robbie Parker.

Six-year-old Emily Parker, the eldest of Robbie's three daughters, could, according to her father, light up a room with her mere presence.

When the shooting rang out at school, Ben Paley and his nine-year-old twin brother were on opposite sides of the building. Both were lucky - the killer did not reach them.

Ben Paley, Sandy Hook School student: “At first we thought it was some kind of animal. And the sounds we heard were not at all like the shots of our military or police weapons. We all hid in our teacher’s office. Then we We learned that many students were injured, including a couple of our friends."

The shooter arrived at his former school immediately after killing his own mother. He took her car and grabbed at least three guns from her arsenal. No one can still understand what motivated the teenager. No one suspected that he had any mental problems.

“He was a bright child, very smart and intelligent, he studied well. Nothing, literally nothing, gave reason to think that there was something wrong with him,” said James McDade, a neighbor of the Lanza family, shocked by what happened.

Meanwhile, the Daily News claims, citing psychiatrists, that he was unstable - a rare form of autism - and was a "time bomb" that was bound to explode sooner or later. Apparently, there were prerequisites for this.

Marina Bardyshevskaya, candidate of psychological sciences: “This is an intelligent person who understands all schemes and models well, who simply remains emotionally cold and stupid all his life. Of course, there is a genetic predisposition, but it cannot be said that a person with Asperger’s syndrome will necessarily grow into a maniac. But “If there is a dysfunctional situation in the family, this is possible.”

All last night they carried flowers to the site of the tragedy. At the entrance to the school, candles were burning and prayers were being said. The day before, he addressed words of condolences to the families of the victims. The president himself spoke about the sad statistics: “Over the past few years, our nation has experienced several similar tragedies. Newton Elementary School, a shopping center in Oregon, countless corners in places like Chicago and Philadelphia. This could happen in our city at any moment. That is why we need to come together and take constructive measures together to avoid similar tragedies in the future."

It is not yet known what measures exactly will be taken. On Sunday, a shopping center in California was added to the list of those “under fire.” The attacker, a 42-year-old man, is in the store parking lot. The police have arrested the perpetrator and his motives are currently being investigated. Despite the fact that this time no one was hurt, in light of recent events, soon even the crack of a car exhaust pipe will be able to provoke panic among Americans.

Police reported the heroic actions of some Sandy Hook School staff in Connecticut during the attack by Adam Lanza, which killed a total of 27 people, the newspaper wrote on Sunday. New York Post with reference to preliminary investigation data.

Police Lieutenant Paul Vance said that little by little the picture of what happened behind the walls of the school is being revealed. According to him, first of all, “nobody voluntarily let Lanza into the school - he broke in on his own.”
Then, when a young man dressed in camouflage and body armor with a rifle in his hands entered the building, the school security guard ran along the main corridor, warning everyone of trouble.
According to investigators, as a result of his actions, many teachers 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 so that the sounds of gunfire coming through the loudspeakers would warn others of the danger.
According to the newspaper Telegraph, one of the teachers, Victoria Soto, died from the killer's bullets while shielding children, and her colleague, a senior teacher, whose name was not given, died when she tried to resist the criminal.

She took the shot herself and saved the children.
As the teacher’s relatives said on Sunday Victoria Soto (Vicki Soto), she shielded the students from the maniac shooter who opened fire at a school in Connecticut.
Soto paid for her courageous act with her life. But this is the only way a 27-year-old girl could save her first-graders from the enraged killer Adam Lanza ( Adam Lanza) and become a hero.

Parents of surviving students remember with gratitude 27-year-old teacher Victoria Soto, who sacrificed herself for the sake of her students.

She was only 27. She taught school for three years and worked on advanced training at Southern Connecticut State University. Loved books, rooted for New York Yankees and adored her Labrador Roxy.

Now the name of this simple girl, who overnight became a national heroine, flashes across all international media. She saved other people's lives at the cost of her own. As the shooter approached Room 10 Friday morning, elementary school teacher Victoria Soto gathered her students and hid them. She lied to the criminal, saying they were in a different location.

In response, the killer shot the girl at point-blank range. Despite the horror of the tragedy, Vicki’s cousin would later say: “She did what she thought was right and necessary to protect the children.” Because there was no other way. Both her colleagues and the school principal knew about this, and they showed unprecedented courage in the face of danger. Six teachers were among the victims. Sandy Hook.

“The school director herself came out to the killer to protect her students, and the school psychologist did the same. Another teacher helped the children leave the building - they climbed out through the windows. People did incredible things, they behaved like real heroes."- said school inspector Jennette Robinson.

Caitlin Roig, teacher: “I told them to sit quietly, very quietly. I was terribly afraid that if he came in, he might hear us and just start shooting through the door. I said that we should sit very, very quietly. And I said that there are bad people outside, and we need to wait until good people come and save us.”

“The relatives were told that she, trying to protect the children, locked them in the toilet, Vicky’s cousin Jim Wiltsey tells the Daily News. Jim Wiltsie). - She shielded the students from the killer.”

According to Wiltsey, police told her relatives about Vicki Soto's heroic act at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
“I am very proud to say that she is a true hero, says Wiltsey, who is a Fairfield County police officer. Fairfield), Connecticut. - Vicky wouldn’t have done it any other way. 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.”
“Emotionally it’s very difficult to go through all this at once,”- he continues, - It's still hard to believe that all this happened b".

According to him, the relatives are completely crushed by grief also because the girl died just before Christmas.
“She just adored her family, they were all very friendly.”, - says Wiltsey, - and she was generally their ringleader, everything revolved around her. They just held a Secret Santa.(Christmas ceremony of anonymous exchange of gifts upon preliminary requests - approx. transl.). She was always the instigator and set it all up.”

Soto lived with her parents, sisters and brother in Stratford ( Stratford), Connecticut. Their modest 1.5-storey traditional house with a gable roof is located in a working-class area. Vicki was single, kept busy with her black Labrador, Roxy, and was a good member of the local church. Lordship Community Church.

Her mother, Donna, worked as a nurse at Bridgeport Hospital for 30 years ( Bridgeport). Father Carlos works as a crane operator for the state transportation department.
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.

“He only talked about her, says Gary Verbanich ( Gary Verbanic), colleague of a grief-stricken father, - you won’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 55-year-old George Henderson ( George Henderson), - She might as well not come, she doesn’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 you everything- he says, - until it became a statistic or just a number on paper. I want people to know about her actions and what she went to for these children.”.

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 were whistling. (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)