A Las Vegas teenager reportedly died last week after he was severely beaten by a violent mob of about 15 attackers near a local high school. Jonathan Lewis Jr., a 17-year-old student of Rancho High School, died on Tuesday at University Medical Center while receiving treatment for injuries he suffered during the attack. His father said his son was hospitalized and put on life support until he eventually passed away due to his injuries.
“We’re all just trying to process this,” Jonathan Lewis Sr. told local media. “The whole family is in shock.”
Lewis, 38, said on a GoFundMe page that, from his understanding, a smaller friend of Lewis Jr. had an item stolen by a group of 15 who then threw the boy in a trash can. When Lewis Jr. confronted the mob, they attacked him.
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“A couple (of people) attacked him, and they weren’t able to hurt him enough, and they all attacked him at once,” Lewis told local media.
Video footage of the purported incident circulated on social media this month, which appears to show a large group of students pushing a young male to a fence and severely beating him while the victim lay on the ground.