An Andres High School student, Brandon Elizares, 16, took his own life on Saturday, according to his family and friends. KFOX14 News spoke Elizares's friends and mother, Zachalyn Elizares, at her Northeast home on Friday, and she said that her son was bullied at school for two years because he did not want to hide the fact that he was gay.

"He got bullied simply for being gay," Elizares said. "He's been threatened to be stabbed. He's been threatened to be set on fire."

Elizares said the El Paso Independent school district did everything it could to help solve the problem.

"They've reprimanded several kids and they did everything that they could," Elizares said.

Elizares said that Brandon's friends told her that there was an incident on Friday at school where someone insulted her son and planned to fight him the next week.

Saturday, Elizares was running errands and came home to discover her son's body.

While speaking with KFOX14, Elizares tried to stay strong and hold back her tears as long as she could. But the thought of careless words and hateful threats brought on the tears.

"My son had every right to live his live the way that he wanted to, without having to fear that people would call him names or threaten to beat him up," Elizares said.

EPISD could not comment on this specific case, but did want to remind students that bullying needs to be reported.

"What a bully is looking for is to try to scare you not to report it, so that nothing is done," said Debra Carden, EPISD's bullying committee leader.

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To report bullying within EPISD go to http://www.episd.org/ and click on the "Stop Bullying" button.