Four teenagers who allegedly participated in the mob that fatally beat classmate Jonathan Lewis near their Las Vegas high school made their first appearance in adult court on Friday, days after police called the viral attack “ very lacking in humanity.”
Beaver Dontral, 16; Gianni Robinson, 17 years old; and Damien Hernandez, 17, and Treavion Randolph, 16, face murder charges in connection with Lewis’ Nov. 7 death.
Randolph had just turned 16 on the day of the fatal beating, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The four teenagers will face their trial together.
Lewis was brutally beaten near Rancho High School on Nov. 1 when he fought with an unidentified classmate over a pair of wireless headphones, which were allegedly stolen from him or one of his friends, said Las Vegas Homicide Lt. Jason Johansson. during a press conference. Tuesday.
17-year-old suspect Damien Hernandez.8 News Now 17-year-old suspect Gianni Robinson.8 News Now
After the first punch was thrown, a mob of students pounced on Lewis, pushing him to the ground and violently beating the teenager in an attack that Johansson described as “very inhumane” and “heinous.”
Lewis died from blunt force trauma on November 7.
His family shared earlier this month that Lewis had been defending a friend who was being bullied.
The 16-year-old suspect Treavion Randolph.8 News Now The 16-year-old suspect Dontral Beaver.8 News Now
“One of his younger friends had something stolen by this group of 15, they threw the boy in the trash, and our son confronted them and was attacked,” according to a GoFundMe page created by his family.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI identified 10 of the suspects in the videos of Lewis’ cruel beating death and arrested eight of the suspects on Tuesday.
The four unfixed suspects, whose ages range from 13 to 17, are currently in the juvenile court system while they wait to be certified to enter the adult court system to face possible murder charges.
Jonathan Lewis, 17, died about two weeks after being attacked by a mob outside Rancho High School in Las Vegas. NewsNation The mob of violent children swarmed Lewis and began repeatedly punching and kicking the outnumbered teen in the head as he lay helpless on the ground. .8newssnow
In Nevada, a case is automatically moved to the adult system if a 16- or 17-year-old is charged with murder, which in the court system is called certification.
A judge can certify children over 14 as adults for any serious crime, including murder, although the process is not automatic, according to the outlet.
The LVMPD is seeking the public’s help in identifying the two other suspects who were not taken into custody earlier this week, urging anyone to contact their homicide department or Crime Stoppers for tips.
Lewis was taken to the hospital and placed on life support after the attack, but died a week later.GoFundMe.
“I know there are two juveniles still outstanding, we have four still within the juvenile system that couldn’t be filed directly,” Clark County Assistant Prosecutor Shanon Clowers-Sanborn said Friday.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson told 8 News Now that other videos of the beating, which are not currently circulating online, show even more gruesome angles of the attack that led to Lewis’ death.
“At the end of the day, a young man was brutally murdered and I think some of these young men will be held accountable,” Wolfson told The Las Vegas Review-Journal earlier this week.
Wolfson is the prosecutor seeking to charge the teens suspected of beating Lewis to death as adults.
Beaver, Robinson and Hernandez are scheduled to appear in court again on Nov. 21.
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