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ONTARIO, Calif. It's not clear just what made eighth-grader Anthony Soltero kill himself.But the Los Angeles area teen-ager is being described as a martyr in the immigration debate.
His family says the 14-year-old had been called to the vice principal's office just hours before his death, and that he'd been threatened with jail for walking out of school to protest proposed changes to immigration law.
But school officials say he wasn't threatened with anything more than missing a dance or a field trip. And they say he didn't take part in the protests that day by thousands of students across Southern California -- he was just cutting class.
For whatever reason, he took his stepfather's rifle and killed himself. A family lawyer says he left a suicide note in which he blamed the run-in with the vice principal.
A student march planned for tomorrow in Los Angeles will be dedicated to him.
His family says the 14-year-old had been called to the vice principal's office just hours before his death, and that he'd been threatened with jail for walking out of school to protest proposed changes to immigration law.
But school officials say he wasn't threatened with anything more than missing a dance or a field trip. And they say he didn't take part in the protests that day by thousands of students across Southern California -- he was just cutting class.
For whatever reason, he took his stepfather's rifle and killed himself. A family lawyer says he left a suicide note in which he blamed the run-in with the vice principal.
A student march planned for tomorrow in Los Angeles will be dedicated to him.
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