Las Vegas police said eight teenagers were arrested Tuesday in connection to the deadly beating of a 17-year-old boy near a high school earlier this month.

Las Vegas police Lt. Jason Johannson said the teen suspects, who range in age from 13 to 17, were charged with murder in connection to a Nov. 1 assault in which multiple people attacked Jonathan Lewis and left him critically injured.

The victim’s father told the media Jonathan died Nov. 7.

Police are still trying to identify two other suspects in the attack that Lt. Johannson described as “void of humanity.”

Authorities said a fight was set up on Nov. 1 after the teen suspects stole wireless headphones and a vape pen from Jonathan or his friends earlier in the week.

After Jonathan was struck by the first punch, the 10 teens quickly swarmed and began “kicking, punching and stomping on him,” Lt. Johannson said.

Jonathan was unresponsive and unconscious after the melee. Police said medical officials determined the teen suffered fatal head trauma.

All eight of the teen suspects are being held at the Clark County Juvenile Detention Center.

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he expects two of the suspects who are 16 or older will be automatically tried as adults. The younger suspects will have to be certified as adults during separate hearings in juvenile court, he said.

“There are potentially varying degrees of culpability, and that will all be analyzed and reviewed by the district attorney’s office and I will make the final decisions on who will be charged with what,” Mr. Wolfson told the newspaper.

Lt. Johannson said there’s no evidence the attack was a hate crime. Jonathan was White, and it most of his attackers appeared to be Black.

• Matt Delaney can be reached at mdelaney@washingtontimes.com.