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 College, filed a lawsuit towards the Clark County College District.
In November 2023, a number of teenagers kicked and punched Lewis in an alley close to the college. The beating was captured on video. Lewis died per week later from extreme mind trauma suffered within the beating. 9 teenagers, all Rancho Excessive College college students, had been arrested and charged. 4 of the teenagers accepted a plea deal to keep away from grownup court docket and a second-degree homicide cost. They had been transferred to juvenile court docket, 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 needs to be tried as adults.
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Prepared’s lawsuit was filed on Wednesday and accuses the college district of wrongful dying and negligence. In response to the swimsuit, faculty employees had been conscious of a battle involving Lewis and the scholars and “escalating tensions.” It additionally states employees 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 swimsuit additionally names Sandra Corona, who owns the property on twenty first Avenue the place the beating occured, and accuses her of wrongful dying 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.
