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  • CA: Relative could face charges in Soltero boy's death (Inland youth mourned as 'martyr' thread)

    04/11/2006 9:22:06 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 21 replies · 530+ views
    Daily Bulletin ^ | 4/11/06 | Melissa Pinion-Whitt
    ONTARIO - Police investigating the suicide of a middle-schooler say the boy's stepfather could face criminal charges for allegedly not securing the rifle the boy used to kill himself. Anthony Soltero, 14, shot himself March 30. According to the family's attorney, the De Anza Middle School student was distraught after a vice principal threatened him with jail time and school discipline for protesting immigration-reform bill HR 4437. Police withheld the name of Soltero's stepfather, since he has not been arrested or charged. Ontario police Lt. John Evans said the man kept the rifle in the family's garage. The weapon was...
  • CA: Inland youth mourned as 'martyr' (14YO, committed suicide, feared being jailed for 'walk-out')

    04/10/2006 6:52:54 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 48 replies · 961+ views
    Riverside Press-Enterprise ^ | 4/10/06 | Sharon McNary
    14-year-old Inland middle school student who killed himself after telling his mother he might be jailed for joining a student walkout is being held up as a symbol by some who support immigrant rights. "He was just fighting for his rights," Louise Corales said of her son, Anthony Soltero, after a standing-room-only Palm Sunday Mass for the teen at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Ontario. "He would be proud that we are here now to honor him because he is a hero." Then she leaned weeping into the arms of her husband, Victor Corales, as Anthony's father, Jaime Soltero,...