Court briefs for November 15, 2000

Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2000 | 11:21 a.m.

Man sentenced to 10 to 25 years

A Las Vegas man who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the shooting death of a friend was sentenced Tuesday to 10 to 25 years in prison.

Ramses Escobar, 21, was also given a 3 1/2 to 12 1/2 year sentence on two counts of battery in an unrelated case so he will not be eligible for parole for at least 13 1/2 years.

According to authorities, Escobar and Reed got into an argument at a party near Tropicana Avenue and Maryland Parkway on Oct. 23 and Escobar shot and killed Reed.

Escobar claimed the shooting was self-defense.

Family sues school district

The mother of a former Woodbury Middle School student has filed a lawsuit against the Clark County School District and two Chapparal High School students over an alleged hazing incident.

According to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in District Court, the 14-year-old boy was walking home from school at around noon on June 2, 1999, when his path was blocked by two vehicles filled with Chapparal High School students.

Five or six young men jumped out of the vehicle, asked him if he had been "initiated" and placed him in a headlock.

Two of the boys then pulled his pants down, squirted a hair-removing product on him and pulled his pants back up. They then threw him to the ground, causing him to strike his head on the curb.

The mother and the boy are suing the school district and the parents of two of the boys for negligent supervision, battery, kidnapping, false imprisonment, sexual assault, hazing, conspiracy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

They are seeking unspecified damages.

One of the boys named as a suspect in the lawsuit committed suicide earlier this year.