Las Vegas High School Grapples With How a Feud Over Stolen Items Escalated Into a Fatal Beating

Published on November 22, 2023

LAS VEGAS—Students at a Las Vegas high school had gone home for the day when an urgent message was broadcast from the intercom: A defibrillator was needed near one of the classrooms. A nurse ran in the direction of the emergency. A group of teachers tried to perform CPR. It wasn’t until the next day that social studies teacher Reuben D’Silva learned what happened—a student who was standing up for a friend was put on life support after being brutally beaten by 10 of his peers in a nearby alley. It was a devastating episode for Rancho High School in east Las Vegas. Some students walked out of class when they heard Jonathan Lewis Jr., 17, wouldn’t survive head trauma and other injuries he suffered in the Nov. 1 attack, Mr. D’Silva said....

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