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Police have arrested a ninth suspect in connection with thefatal beating of a 17-year-old boyoutside of a Las Vegas high school, authorities said.
On Wednesday, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) said in apress releasethat a ninth suspect, whose name has not been released, was arrested and booked into the Clark County Juvenile Hall for open murder.
“Detectives still need help identifying one outstanding person of interest in this homicide,” the release states. “The individual was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and khaki pants.”
The attack happened on Nov. 1 in an alleyway east of the Rancho High School, and all the witnesses, suspects and attendees of the brawl involved were students from that school, Lt. Jason Johansson with the LVMPD’s homicide unit said at a Nov. 14 press conference.
He also noted that the fight was “over a pair of stolen wireless headphones” and “possibly” over a marijuana vape pen which may have been stolen from Lewis Jr. or his friends.
“What you see in the video though is approximately ten subjects kicking, stomping and punching our victim Jonathan as he’s on the ground, not defending himself until the point where he becomes unconscious,” Johansson added.
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On Nov. 7, six days after the beating, police said they were notified that Lewis was medically declared brain dead, and a subsequent autopsy revealed that his cause of death was blunt force trauma. His death was ruled a homicide.
“Jonathan Lewis Jr. was a hero [who] was trying to defend his friend,” the grieving father wrote. “[Lewis Jr.] loves his friends and family so much and was an aspiring artist.”
Anyone with any information about the case is urged to contact the LVMPD Homicide Section at 702-828-3521 orhomicide@lvmpd.com.
source: people.com
