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An Ohio family is desperate for answers after their 17-year-old son, Ethan Liming, was brutally beaten to death near a school basketball court on June 2 — the last day of his junior year.
Bill Liming, Ethan’s father, described his son as an athlete at Firestone Community Learning Center, a public high school in Akron; an honors student; and a generally loving, charitable person with a “bright future” of him. The minister said his son would accompany him on mission trips to Richmond and other more local outings, donating food to community members in need.
Ethan played football and baseball, he had a 4.03 GPA, and he wanted to be a lawyer someday.
“I was supposed to be taking Ethan to college visits on Monday. His first college visit,” Liming told Fox News Digital. “He wanted to become a lawyer, and he wanted to fight for people who weren’t able to fight for themselves. He would have been fighting for the same people who murdered him. He cared for everybody.”
“He was a beautiful boy,” Liming continued.
Akron Police Department Chief Stephen Mylett described Ethan’s killing as a “senseless act of violence” during a Wednesday press conference.
On the night of June 2, a Thursday, at 10:49 p.m., police received a call regarding a fight in a parking lot next to an elementary school basketball court. The court, which is apparently lit at all hours of the night, according to Liming, is part of a public elementary school in Akron supported by the LeBron James Family Foundation called the “I Promise School.”
