LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The mom of 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis, who died after being overwhelmed by a bunch of teenagers close to Rancho Excessive Faculty, filed a lawsuit in opposition to the Clark County Faculty District.
In November 2023, a number of teenagers kicked and punched Lewis in an alley close to the varsity. The beating was captured on video. Lewis died per week later from extreme mind trauma suffered within the beating. 9 teenagers, all Rancho Excessive Faculty college students, had been arrested and charged. 4 of the teenagers accepted a plea deal to keep away from grownup courtroom and a second-degree homicide cost. They had been transferred to juvenile courtroom, the place they agreed to confess to voluntary manslaughter.
Jonathan Lewis, as a younger little one, together with his mom Mellisa Prepared. (Credit score: Mellisa Prepared)
Mellisa Prepared, Jonathan’s mom, criticized the settlement, believing the teenagers ought to be tried as adults.
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Prepared’s lawsuit was filed on Wednesday and accuses the varsity district of wrongful demise and negligence. In accordance with the go well with, faculty workers had been conscious of a battle involving Lewis and the scholars and “escalating tensions.” It additionally states workers had been conscious of “fighting and criminal activity” on the property — the place Lewis was overwhelmed — however did not take affordable steps to oversee college students in or close to that space.
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The go well with additionally names Sandra Corona, who owns the property on twenty first Avenue the place the beating occured, and accuses her of wrongful demise and negligence for not “taking reasonable steps to prevent foreseeable harm to minors and others entering or traversing the property … in light … of known criminal or violent activity in the area.”
The lawsuit seeks a jury trial, damages over $15,000, funeral and burial bills, and authorized prices.
