Las Vegas High School Grapples With How a Feud Over Stolen Items Escalated Into a Fatal Beating

Las Vegas High School Grapples With How a Feud Over Stolen Items Escalated Into a Fatal Beating
A makeshift memorial for a high school student lines a fence along an alleyway near Rancho High School in eastern Las Vegas on Nov. 21, 2023. Ty ONeil/AP Photo
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LAS VEGAS—Students at a Las Vegas high school had gone home for the day when an urgent message was broadcast from the intercom: A defibrillator was needed near one of the classrooms.

A nurse ran in the direction of the emergency. A group of teachers tried to perform CPR. It wasn’t until the next day that social studies teacher Reuben D’Silva learned what happened—a student who was standing up for a friend was put on life support after being brutally beaten by 10 of his peers in a nearby alley.