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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

‘Heart of a champion’: father grieves son beaten to death by mob in Las Vegas

Jonathan Lewis
Witnesses say Jonathan Lewis was repeatedly struck by mob when he stood up for a younger friend who had been thrown into a trash can. Photograph: Team Jonathan Lewis

A grieving father in Nevada has paid tribute to his 17-year-old son’s “heart of a champion” and denounced the scourge of teenage violence after the boy was beaten to death by a mob outside his high school for defending a smaller child.

Jonathan Lewis said his son – also named Jonathan – died at the University medical center in Las Vegas last Tuesday, one week after the attack involving about 15 others near the city’s Rancho high school.

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