In late October, Angel Soto was helping the Miami Lakes Youth Activities Task Force sort a storage room at the Mary Collins Community Center to prepare for the Haunted House event. Angel, 17, told adults about a man who police said was later found to be a person of interest in three aggravated battery cases.
On Feb. 7 in Miami Lakes Town Hall, the Public Safety Committee gave Angel a challenge coin for his heroic act.
“As a Miami Lakes citizen, I figured it was the regular thing for me to do, to see something and say something,” Angel said while thanking the committee for the coin.
“What a great kid,” Nancy Rogers, chair of the Public Safety Committee said later. “His parents should be very proud of him.”
Ana Soto-Gonzalez (no relation), a teacher at Barbara Goleman Senior High School, said of Angel, “He’s a great student and a model resident of the town.”
In the photo in front of Town Hall, from left are Jesus Lamazarus, student mentor and network data communication specialist at Goleman; Ana Soto-Gonzalez, Goleman teacher and National Honor Society sponsor; Angel Soto and Robert Inza, an assistant principal at Goleman. Photo courtesy of Ana Soto-Gonzalez.