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George Ignacio Soto
 
1988-2011

Tucson Gay Hate Crime Murder
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George Ignacio Soto
February 2011

Roadside Memorial

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-Photographic Exhibit-

 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.

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