Los Amigos High graduate Ashley Sotelo breaks from pattern to success

Los Amigos senior Ashley Sotelo will be the first member of her family to attend college when she starts at UCLA in the fall, but getting there wasn’t easy. Sotelo overcame family turmoil including her brother being killed by gang violence and her father being deported, and credits her school’s AVID program for getting her on track for college. Friday, June 9, 2017. (Photo by Nick Agro, Orange County Register/SCNG)As a middle schooler, Ashley Sotelo was following an all too familiar