Mellisa Ready is slamming the disgusting plea deal offered to four Las Vegas high school students and accused killers who beat her son, Jonathan Lewis Jr., to death back in November of 2023.
"There's literally no one being held accountable with true punishment for my son's murder," she told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
"It's disgusting."
All four teens were under the age of 18 at the time but were given the opportunity to plead guilty Tuesday to voluntary manslaughter in the fatal beating of their classmate as part of a plea deal cut with prosecutors that kept them from being tried as adults.
Treavion Randolph, 17, Dontral Beaver, 17, Damien Hernandez, 18, and Gianni Robinson, 17, were initially charged in January as adults with second-degree murder and conspiracy in connection to the death of Jonathan Lewis, 17.
The attack which was captured on video was shared widely across social media platforms following the incident.
Minors prosecuted in the juvenile court system in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, do not face traditional jail or prison sentences and instead are released from custody after they complete rehabilitation programs, explained the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Each teen faces incarceration at a juvenile detention center for an undetermined length of time.
The students had agreed in November to meet in an alleyway near Rancho High School to fight over a vape pen and wireless headphones that had been stolen from a friend of Lewis, as reported by NBC15.
The homicide detective who investigated the case testified in court that the video footage showed Lewis throwing a punch at one of the boys, and in return, the suspects pulled the victim to the ground and began punching, kicking, and stomping on him, according to Fox 5 Vegas.
Another student and a resident in the area carried Lewis-badly beaten and unconscious-back to the school following the horrific brawl.
As a result of the injuries sustained during the attack, Lewis died six days later.
Defense lawyer Robert Draskovich, representing one of the four teens, said after court Tuesday that the deal "was a very fair resolution."
