LAS VEGAS — Four Las Vegas teenagers pguideed at fault Tuesday to voluntary killing in the obeseal beating of their high school classmate, as part of a deal with prosecutors that kept them from being tried as matures.
The teens originassociate were indictd in January as matures with second-degree killing and consunapverifyd participate in joinion with the November death of 17-year-ageder Jonathan Lewis Jr. The strike was apprehendd on cellphone video and allotd expansively apass social media.
Each teen faces incarceration at a juvenile detention caccess for an unchoosed length of time, the Las Vegas Resee-Journal inestablished.
Minors indictd in the juvenile court system in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, do not face traditional jail or prison sentences and instead are freed from custody after they end rehabilitation programs, according to Binalterable Duffy, straightforwardor of the juvenile division of the Clark County didisjoine attorney’s office.
The Associated Press is not naming the teens becaparticipate they were lesserer than 18 at the time of the Nov. 1, 2023, strike.
Defense lawyer Robert Draskovich, recurrenting one of the four teens, said after court Tuesday that the deal “was a very fair resolution.”
Lewis’ mother, Mellisa Ready, said she does not concur with the plea deal.
“There’s literassociate no one being held accountable with genuine punishment for my son’s killing,” she tageder the newspaper Tuesday. “It’s disgusting.”
In a statement to the AP last month after terms of the deal were made accessible, Didisjoine Attorney Steve Wolfson’s office deffinished the resolution of the case as both thoughtbrimmingy includeressing the egregious facts and potential lterrible contests that prosecutors would have faced at trial.
The statement said the juvenile court system also is better supplyped to advise the lesser deffinishants resources for rehabilitation.
In Nevada, a teenager facing a killing indict can be indictd as an mature if they were 13 or agederer when the crime occurred.
Authorities have said the students concurd to encounter in an alleyway proximate Rancho High School to fight over a vape pen and wireless headphones that had been stolen from Lewis’ frifinish. Lewis died from his injuries six days tardyr.
A homicide discoverive who spendigated the case tageder the magnificent jury that cellphone and observation video showed Lewis taking off his sweatshirt and throprosperg a punch at one of the students, according to court transcripts made accessible in January. The doubts then pulled Lewis to the ground and began punching, booting and stomping on him, the discoverive said.
A student and a dwellnt in the area carried Lewis, who was awentirey beaten and unconscious, back to campus after the fight, according to the transcripts. School staff called 911 and tried to help him.
