The remaining defendants, between 13 and 15, will face certification hearings in family court, where a judge will determine if they also will be tried as adults, according to the Review-Journal.

Those four cases were automatically transferred to adult criminal court because the defendants are 16 or 17, the newspaper reported. Half the teens arrested will be tried as adults, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. The suspects range in age from 13 to 17 and are students at Rancho High School. “The video is very graphic and, in my opinion, is very void of humanity.”Įight juveniles – whose names have not been released – were taken into custody and “will be charged with the crime of murder,” said Undersheriff Andrew Walsh. “What you see in the video is approximately 10 subjects kicking, stomping and punching our victim, Jonathan, as he is on the ground not defending himself, to the point that he becomes unconscious,” Johansson said. Jason Johansson said in a news conference Tuesday.Įvents in the alley were captured in a video that has been widely shared on social media. The beating happened November 1 in an alley near the Rancho High School campus after school let out, Las Vegas police Lt. Jonathan Lewis died after being beaten when a fight broke out over a pair of stolen wireless headphones and possibly over a stolen marijuana vape pen, according to a police spokesperson. Eight juveniles are facing murder charges in the “senseless” beating death of a 17-year-old Las Vegas high school student that was caught on video, police say.

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