On a crisp December morning, Victoria Soto, a vibrant 27-year-old female teacher of Puerto Rican and Irish-American heritage, drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, with Christmas music filling her car. It was December 14, 2012, a day that began with her characteristic enthusiasm for teaching her first-grade students, but would end in an act of unimaginable horror and selfless bravery. That morning, a 20-year-old man named Adam Lanza, after fatally shooting his mother at
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