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AKRON, Ohio — Bill Liming says he doesn't feel like he can remain silent any longer. His son, Ethan Liming, was a star athlete, an honor roll student and a rising senior. Summer vacation had just started when the 17-year-old was brutally beaten and killed. Now, months later, his father feels like he is being victimized by the justice system. “I naively believed that once the people who murdered my son were caught that the justice system would simply handle things. We’ve said all along we were confident when the facts of the case were presented that Ethan would receive...

The U.S. Marshals Service arrested three men accused of fatally beating 17-year-old high school student Ethan Liming to death outside the Ohio school founded by LeBron James in June. The three men beat Liming to death and later bragged about it to friends.

A 911 call made from the basketball court of an Ohio high school founded by LeBron James raises more questions than it answers about an incident that left a high school junior dead. Ethan Liming, 17, was beaten to death in the parking lot of the I Promise School in Akron on June 2. Three men have been arrested in connection with the homicide, which officials said erupted after Liming was shooting a water gun at people on the court. “We’re at the I Promise school in Akron, Ohio,” one of Liming’s friends told a 911 operator during a 10:42...

A photo of the SPLATRBALL Water Bead Blaster gel gun found at the scene.Courtesy of the Akron Police Department. Ethan Liming, 17, was killed after he and a group of juveniles targeted people with a water gun. Three adult males were arrested on murder and felonious assault charges in connection with Liming's death. Police said the juveniles "provoked the altercation" but that the attack was not "remotely justified." An Ohio teenager was beaten to death after he and a group of teenagers shot at people with a water gun, police said. Authorities were called to the scene of a fight...

A 17-year-old boy was found dead in the parking lot of LeBron James’ I Promise School after a fight, Ohio police say. The teenager, Ethan Liming, died of blunt force trauma to the head, Gary Guenther, chief investigator at the Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office, told McClatchy News. Liming was a student at Firestone Community Learning Center, a public high school in Akron, Ohio, Akron police Lt. Michael Miller told McClatchy. Akron is about 40 miles south of Cleveland. None of the people involved in the June 2 incident are believed to be students at the I Promise School, Miller...