George Soto, a 23 year old Gay Man in
Tucson, Arizona while walking down the street across from the Amphi
High School campus was punched to the ground by teenaged gang member
Christian Guauna-Castillo 18, then stabbed numerous times by another
teenaged gang member Gabriel Israel Soliz until the Gay Man George Soto was
dead on Valentines Day February 14, 2011 because they thought he
walked and talked like someone who was Gay.
Gabriel Israel Soliz admitted to police he
repeatedly stabbed Mr. Soto.
Pima County Superior Court Judge Teresa
Godoy later sentenced the murderer Gabriel Soliz to life in prison March 25
2012 with the condition that he could be released on possible parole
after serving 25 years. Had the murderer gone to trial and Soliz been
convicted, he would have faced a potential sentence of life in prison with
no chance of ever being released from prison.
Gabriel Soliz18, Christian Gauna-Castillo, 18,
and a third younger teenage gang member attacked George Soto after
they bought
items at a convenience store at Fort Lowell Road and North Stone
Avenue, according to court documents.
The prosecutions star eye witness to the
murder who was set to testify
against Soliz the murderer in the upcoming court trial was later shot,
killed, and left laying in a pool of blood in the street on Dec.ember 22, 2011 by "unknown assailants" in
downtown Tucson.
The district attorny's prosecution eye witness was highly
suspected to have been lured into a secluded area and murderded as a "Gang Hit" orchestrated by the accused muderer
in the trial.
That case remains an unsolved murder in the
Cold Case Files of the Tucson Police Department.
If you have any
information in that murder contact 88-Crime anonomously or contact
your local law enforcement agency.