A teenage boy succumbed to his injuries days after being beaten by a group of bullies near a high school in Las Vegas. Around 15 youths brutally beat 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis near Rancho High School on November 1 when he tried to stand up for a younger friend who had been robbed by the gang.
After the incident, the video showing the moment the fight broke out surfaced (Facebook)
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Jonathan’s father, also named Jonathan Lewis, wrote on a GoFundMe set up for him., “We have been given a statement from our son's girlfriend that what occurred was that 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 and he was attacked by them. He's a courageous young man.”
‘Violence just begets more violence’
After the incident, the video showing the moment the fight broke out surfaced. In a conversation with 8NewsNow, Lewis said his son kept to himself. The young boy was living with his mother in Las Vegas when he died, and was planning to move to Austin, Texas. “Violence just begets more violence and these children don’t even know what they’re doing half the time,” Lewis said.
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“I think there’s just a failure of all of humanity to recognize that we need to be teaching our youth how to coexist,” Lewis added. According to the Daily Mail, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police launched a homicide investigation.
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“I think there’s just a failure of all of humanity to recognize that we need to be teaching our youth how to coexist,” Lewis added. According to the Daily Mail, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police launched a homicide investigation.
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