Seventeen-year-old boy beaten to death at school established by LeBron James’ foundation
msn.comOhio school established by NBA superstar LeBron James’ foundation ended in a 17-year-old boy being beaten to death, police say.
Ethan Liming had been driving around Akron with two friends on the evening of 2 June firing the SplatRBall Water Bead Blaster at “objects possibly unsuspecting people,” when the group pulled into the parking lot of James’ I Promise School at around 10.
40pm. One of them fired the toy gun at a group of four people playing basketball on the nearby courts. A fight between the groups erupted, and Mr Liming, who had been sitting in the car, got out to try to defuse the situation, his father Bill told ABC5 Cleveland.
The senior student at Firestone Community Learning Center may not have realised how grave the situation was, his father said, relaying a conversation he’d had with a detective. “Ethan still thought it was horseplay when he got out of the car and was trying to tell people, ‘It’s relaxed.
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