Posted on 11/14/2023 6:50:11 PM PST by Morgana
Eight teenagers have been charged with murder after the fatal beating of a fellow student, who agreed to fight the group in a row over stolen wireless headphones.
Jonathan Lewis, 17, was set upon by a mob of 10 on November 1. He died in hospital on November 7, and on Tuesday the charges were announced.
Lt. Jason Johansson of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said all the people involved — believed to be 10 — were students of Rancho High School.
Johansson described a viral video showing the beating as 'void of humanity'.
Lewis's father said he 'can't watch' the clip.
Johansson said that a citizen found Lewis unresponsive after the beating, which happened in an alleyway near the school, and brought him back to the school.
Lewis was then taken to UMC where doctors determined that he had suffered 'non-survivable head trauma,' Fox 5 Vegas reported.
Johansson said that the fight was over a pair of stolen wireless headphones and possibly a vape pen, which were taken from friends of the victim. All parties involved agreed to meet in the alley to fight, according to police.
'As soon as a punch is thrown, ten subjects immediately swarm him,' he said.
He added that the department was able to identify approximately ten subjects that were involved in the murder and eight of those have been 'positively identified' as suspects.
Johansson said the process is underway for the eight to be charged as adults.
LVMPD will be releasing photos of two individuals who they want to find, who participated in the beating but have not yet been identified.
Johansson appealed for anyone else with video of the fight to come forward.
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“I’m confused, one person agreed to fight 10 people? That cannot be right.”
It is not right. Most likely it was to be one-on-one but he got jumped.
Birds of a feather flock together.
All parties involved agreed to meet means all members of the Goon Squad agreed with the other Goons to meet and attack.
So do I. I thought there were at least 15 sons of Obeyme attacking.
Don’t forget Gyorgy Schwartz!
Or crucify them!
They’ll do hardly any time at all. But if it was a white mob killing a black like this? They’d never see the light of day again.
You might want to slow down and read what you post before you post it. It says the items were taken from friends of the victims by the gang. Not sure how you concluded it said the opposite.
‘Yutes’ the other Amish
I remember seeing that a smaller friend of the deceased had been the original target. The deceased stepped in for him.
While there is plenty of evidence for assault and murder charges, sSlo far there is no evidence for a “hate crime” charge. Do you think this mob would not do the same thing to a black kid, a hispanic kid, or anyone else who tried to stand up to them on behalf of a friend?
I don’t see any reason to assume they wouldn’t mob anybody with just as much enthusiasm as they did this one.
Surprised that they arrested any of them, let alone for murder.
I had read that there were at least 12.
No the items were stolen from friends of the victim.
Actually started back with Obama, BLM, riots, they were allowed to do whatever they wanted. It was racist for police to intervene.
I was wrong. There seems to be actual rule of law in this case.
Good for the police and the DA office! Keep doing that work.
Sons of obama
Not covering for anyone, but maybe the agreement was for the victim to fight only one guy from the group of thugs.
You know, our best vs. your best. West Side Story. Maybe the thugs guy was losing and so the thugs mobbed the victim. They all deserve the death penalty anyway.
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