Three Arrested in Connection to Fatal Beating of Ohio Teen Ethan Liming

Three men have been arrested in connection to the killing of a teenager outside LeBron James-founded Ohio high school in early June, federal authorities announced Saturday.

Ethan Liming, 17, was found beaten to death on June 2 in the parking lot of I Promise School in Akron.

Ethan Liming

In a press release, the US Marshals Service revealed that the federal entity’s Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force and Akron Police on Saturday morning arrested Deshawn Stafford Jr., 20, Tyler Stafford, 19 and Donovon Jones, 21, at two different residential buildings in Akron.

Early Saturday morning, the NOVFTF arrested 3 suspects for the fatal beating of an Akron teen outside of the I Promise school in Akron. pic.twitter.com/Xt0eW9Z31N

— U.S. Marshals (@USMarshalsHQ) June 13, 2022

Liming was brutally beaten to death at around 10:46 p.m. on June 2. Authorities have said the teen died from blunt force trauma to the head after he drove around with his friends and shot a water gun at people.

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Police said “that in the moments leading up to the incident, one or more occupants in the [Liming]’s vehicle were riding around the surrounding area shooting a SPLATRBALL Water Bead Blaster at objects and possibly unsuspecting people,” according to a statement cited by Fox News.

They then drove to the basketball courts, where the group of teens “targeted or approached the subjects who were on the court and fired the gel soft gun at them,” in an incident that apparently provoked the killers.

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