Teacher Image Shifts to Child Saviors After School Attack
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Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher Kaitlin Roig rushed her first-grade class into the bathroom, barricaded the door and kept them quiet -- and safe -- until the gunfire ceased in the hall.
Victoria Soto, 27, was killed after ushering her students into a classroom closet and placing her body between them and the assailant, according to the New York Daily News. Her colleague, Anne Marie Murphy, 52, died shielding students from a rain of rifle bullets that killed 20 children, all 6 or 7, in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, according to Newsday.