{"id":1513766,"date":"2022-06-13T14:04:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T18:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1513766"},"modified":"2022-06-13T14:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T18:04:20","slug":"father-of-fatally-beaten-ohio-teen-ethan-liming-says-narrative-surrounding-attack-false-provides-new-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/father-of-fatally-beaten-ohio-teen-ethan-liming-says-narrative-surrounding-attack-false-provides-new-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Of Fatally Beaten Ohio Teen Ethan Liming Says Narrative Surrounding Attack False, Provides New Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffather-of-fatally-beaten-ohio-teen-ethan-liming-says-narrative-surrounding-attack-false-provides-new-details%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1513766&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bill Liming, the father of fatally beaten Ohio teen Ethan Liming, said his son was trying to defuse an altercation before he was beaten to death, adding that his son\u2019s two friends, who are black, tried to rescue Ethan while he was still breathing, but were chased and assaulted by the perpetrators, who then \u201cfinished my son off,\u201d according to\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news5cleveland.com\/news\/local-news\/akron-canton-news\/family-of-akron-teen-found-beaten-to-death-plead-for-someone-to-come-forward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">News 5 Cleveland<\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ethan, 17, was \u201cbeaten to death near the basketball courts of the [NBA star and political activist LeBron James\u2019] I PROMISE School in Akron\u201d on June 2. Since the incident, three males \u2014 Donovon Jones, 21, Tyler Stafford, 19, and Deshawn Stafford Jr., 20 \u2014 have been arrested in connection to the boy\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bill Liming, a reverend, told News 5 Cleveland last week that the lead detective on the case told him his son was trying to defuse an altercation after some of the boy\u2019s friends were horsing around.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reports suggest they were shooting Water Bead SplatRBall Blasters.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201c\u2018Teenagers were being teenagers, and I don\u2019t want to say too much about the investigation,\u2019\u201d Bill told News 5 Cleveland. \u201c\u2018But apparently, some of his friends who were with him were fooling around in the parking lot, and some other people didn\u2019t like it, and they went running back to Ethan\u2019s car where he and his other friend were.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201c\u2018Ethan still thought it was horseplay when he got out of the car and was trying to tell people, \u2018It\u2019s relaxed. It\u2019s just a joke. It\u2019s a joke,\u2019\u201d Bill continued. \u201c\u2018And the individuals didn\u2019t like that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201c\u2018One individual attacked him,\u2019\u201d the father said. \u201c\u2018Ethan still tried to tell them it\u2019s just a joke. And then another individual came up behind them, struck him in the head.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201c\u2018He was fighting back for his life,\u2019\u201d Bill asserted. \u201c\u2018The detective told me that, \u2018Your son fought for his life.\u2019 It was not over like it was like a single punch, he fell down and hit his head. That\u2019s not what happened \u2026 he was fighting for his life. And then a third individual came up behind him and they overwhelmed them and they knocked him out on the ground.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The reverend noted that Ethan\u2019s friends tried to help him, despite rumors or reports to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201c\u2018It\u2019s been said that they abandoned Ethan and it\u2019s not true,\u2019\u201d Bill said. \u201cThey did everything they possibly could to help Ethan. They called 911 to get help. And when Ethan was knocked out on the ground, his two African-American friends tried to pick up his body and put them in the car, to help save his life. He was still alive at that point. He was still breathing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201c\u2018His friends tried to help him and they drove them away eventually \u2014 not before calling 911. They called, they tried to get help for him. And when they couldn\u2019t catch the one child that ran across a parking lot, they came back and finished my son off,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201c\u2018They, as I said, they called for help for my son, but the help did not arrive in time, and they did the best they could to help him when they were there, and it\u2019s just \u2014 my heart\u2019s broken.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">During a recent press conference, Akron Police Department Chief Stephen Mylett said that Ethan was among a group of four minors who arrived in the parking lot near the basketball courts,\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/ohio-teenager-beaten-to-death-after-shooting-people-water-gun-2022-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Insider<\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0reported Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201c\u2018Shortly after their arrival, they got out of their vehicle, and at least two members of occupants of the vehicle started discharging a [sic], what we know now to be a SPLATRBALL Water Bead Blaster,\u2019\u201d Mylett said. \u201c\u2018They started discharging it at the direction of four individuals who were playing basketball on the basketball court.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The males on the basketball court\u201d \u2018initially ran away as the two juveniles ran in their direction,\u201d Insider said. \u201cThen, the juveniles ran back to their car and were followed by the group of four,\u2019\u201d according to the police chief.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201c\u2018A confrontation occurs,\u2019\u201d Mylett said. \u201c\u2018Ethan Liming is assaulted, and a fight ensues. At the conclusion of it, Ethan Liming is dead.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Liming, the father of fatally beaten Ohio teen Ethan Liming, said his son was trying to defuse an altercation before he was beaten to death, adding that his son\u2019s two friends, who are black, tried to rescue Ethan while he was still breathing, but were chased and assaulted by the perpetrators, who then \u201cfinished &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1513808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1513808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}