LAS VEGAS (NEWSnet/AP) — Four high school students in Las Vegas were indicted Friday as adults on second-degree murder charges in the deadly beating of a schoolmate in November.
Chief Deputy District Attorney John Giordani said the indictment also charges the teenagers with conspiracy to commit battery, a gross misdemeanor.
The Associated Press is not naming the students, because they were juveniles at the time of the incident.
Nine students have been arrested so far in connection with the attack that left 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis Jr. dead. Giordani said the other students are awaiting separate hearings.
According to Las Vegas police, 10 students between the ages of 13 and 17 participated in the beating that unfolded in an alley near Rancho High School. The police department said investigators are still searching for the 10th suspect.
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