The fight broke out over stolen headphones and possibly a stolen marijuana vape pen, police have said.

The father of the teen who was killed, Jonathan Lewis Sr., could not be reached for comment Wednesday. But he wrote about his son’s death in a memorial website, calling him a “hero.”

“Jonathan was a hero who tried to help a smaller child who was being bullied and 15 people attacked him in cowardly violence and our beloved son was beaten to death!”

He told NBC affiliate KSNV of Las Vegas that the circumstances around his son’s death are “absolute lunacy.”

“It just looks like these kids … have gone totally mad, and they’re just totally possessed by hate, and anger and rage and don’t have enough love,” he said.

Source: | This article originally belongs to Nbcnews.com

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