8 High School Students Charged With Murder in Fatal Beating of Schoolmate

Father: ‘One of his smaller friends had something stolen by this group of 15 and they threw the small boy in the trash can and our son confronted them.’
8 High School Students Charged With Murder in Fatal Beating of Schoolmate
Rancho High School in Las Vegas in June 2009. Google Maps/Screenshot via The Epoch Times
Wim De Gent
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Eight high school students in Las Vegas, Nevada have been arrested on murder charges in the fatal beating of a young man during a brawl over a pair of stolen headphones, police announced on Nov. 14.

Jonathan Lewis Jr., a 17-year-old student of Rancho High School, was put on life support with “non-survivable head trauma” after he was attacked by a gang of 10 teenagers on Nov. 1. He was pronounced dead on Nov. 8.

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