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 overwhelmed to dying earlier this month, and his household claims the solicitation for cash is fraudulent.

The fundraiser is titled “Jonathan Lewis Family,” and raised almost $2k since going dwell final week. The fundamental 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.

According to the outline, the alleged organizer, Cole Charles, is trying to elevate funds for Lewis’ household … but it surely’s all fairly obscure.

A spokesperson for GoFundMe tells TMZ … “Our Trust & Safety staff has reached out to the organizer for extra info. All funds raised on the fundraiser stay safely held by our fee processors whereas our Trust & Safety staff 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.

Also … there’s an current, verified fundraiser that is on the positioning benefitting the Lewis fam and has raised effectively over $100,000. Protecting the GoFundMe group is without doubt one of the platform’s prime priorities, and so they have a devoted staff reviewing all fundraisers associated to this incident.

As we reported, footage from the brutal incident confirmed Lewis on the heart 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 faculty to combat.