GoFundMe Suspends Suspicious Fundraiser For Murdered Las Vegas Teen

GoFundMe has suspended a fundraiser showing to learn the household of the Las Vegas teen who was crushed to loss of life earlier this month, and his household claims the solicitation for cash is fraudulent.

The fundraiser is titled “Jonathan Lewis Household,” and raised almost $2k since going dwell final week. The principle photograph is not of 17-year-old Lewis, however as a substitute of one other man … a person who in response to Jonathan’s dad, has no connection to Lewis.

In accordance with the outline, the alleged organizer, Cole Charles, is seeking to increase funds for Lewis’ household … however it’s all fairly obscure.

A spokesperson for GoFundMe tells TMZ … “Our Belief & Security workforce has reached out to the organizer for extra info. All funds raised on the fundraiser stay safely held by our fee processors whereas our Belief & Security workforce conducts its evaluate.”

To be clear, the particular person operating the questionable fundraiser does not have entry to the money that is been raised, and it’ll maintained by GoFundMe till they full their investigation.

Additionally … there’s an present, verified fundraiser that is on the location benefitting the Lewis fam and has raised effectively over $100,000. Defending the GoFundMe neighborhood is among the platform’s high priorities, they usually have a devoted workforce reviewing all fundraisers associated to this incident.

As we reported, footage from the brutal incident confirmed Lewis on the middle of a beatdown close to a Las Vegas highschool — cops mentioned the assault stemmed from stolen headphones and probably a vape pen … with everybody agreeing to satisfy in an alley after college to battle.