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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,...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEWS CONFERENCE Sunday, April 9, 2006 12:00 p.m. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church 710 S. Sultana Ave., Ontario, CA 91761 Louise Corales, whose 14 year-old son, Anthony Soltero, died on April 1 after committing suicide, will speak to the community and ask for a prayer for her son this Sunday, following the 11:00 a.m. mass at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Ontario, California. Eighth grader Anthony Soltero shot himself on Thursday, March 30, after the assistant principal at De Anza Middle School told him that he was going to prison for three years because of his...

ONTARIO - The mother of Anthony Soltero on Friday demanded that the De Anza Middle School assistant principal she claims threatened her son with jail time be kept away from children. Louise Corales dropped off a letter at the office of Ontario-Montclair School District Superintendent Sharon McGehee requesting that Assistant Principal Gene Bennett be removed or transferred from his position until an investigation is completed. She was joined by her attorneys and the Anthony's father, Jaime Soltero. "I want the vice principal transferred into a position where he's not around children. I definitely want him transferred during the investigation," Corales...

ONTARIO - A boy who committed suicide over what relatives alleged were threats of jail made by a school official for protesting an immigration bill never participated in any protests, the superintendent said Thursday. Anthony Soltero, 14, of Ontario told his mother the day he shot himself March 30 that he was pulled into the De Anza Middle School vice principal's office and was threatened with harsh discipline for protesting off campus during school. But Ontario-Montclair School District Superintendent Sharon McGehee said the investigation into the incident so far has not turned up any evidence that Soltero was threatened the...

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...