SUMMIT COUNTY, OH. (THECOUNT) — Deshawn Stafford, 20; Tyler Stafford, 19 and Donovan Jones, 21, have been arrested Saturday in the death of Akron teen, Ethan Liming. Liming was beaten to death.
Akron Police Department say they made the three arrests in connection with the death of Liming, a 17-year-old at Firestone Community Learning Center near the I PROMISE School in Akron.
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The arrests come after the Akron Police Department shared more details with the media about what happened the night Liming died near basketball courts on West Market Street, according to news5cleveland.
Authorities said the suspects have all been charged with murder and felonious assault. Additionally, Jones is charged with disrupting public service as well. The three were arrested Saturday morning by the U.S. Marshals Service.
According to Akron Police Chief Stephen Mylett, on the night of June 2, Liming arrived at the parking lot with several other individuals in a car.
“Shortly after their arrival, they got out of the vehicle, and at least two members of occupants of the vehicle started discharging what we know now to be a SPLATRBALL Water Bead Blaster gel gun. They started discharging it at the direction of four individuals who were playing basketball on the basketball court. The four individuals on the basketball court started running away, and it appears that two of the occupants of the vehicle started running in their direction. Moments later, two occupants of the vehicle are seeing trotting back to their vehicle. The four people who had been on the basketball court are also seen running in the direction of the vehicle in the parking lot. A confrontation occurs. Ethan Liming is assaulted, and a fight ensues. At the conclusion of it, Ethan Liming is dead,” Mylett said.
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Geo quick facts: Summit County is an urban county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2010 census, the population was 541,781 making it the fourth-most populous county in Ohio. Its county seat is Akron. The county was formed on March 3, 1840, from portions of Medina, Portage and Stark Counties – Wikipedia.