Crime & Safety

Teen Charged in Lennon Baldwin Attacks 'Persecuted,' Father Claims

Milton Conway says son Michael Conway getting threats due to involvement in March incidents that some believe led to student's suicide.

Michael Conway, the only legal adult of three Morristown High School students connected to events that are being linked to the suicide death of 15-year-old Lennon Baldwin on March 28, is being persecuted for his role and is just a stupid teenager, not a bully, according to a NJ.com interview with Conway's father, Milton Conway.

Conway, 19, has been charged with lying to investigators while the two juveniles–whose names have not been released because of their age–have been handed more serious charges in several incidents between them and Baldwin in early March, including an assault at and robbery in the parking lot, as payment for getting one of the juveniles suspended. .

As Conway is the only legal adult, his name and face have been getting the most attention and an unfair amount of blame in the incidents, Milton Conway told NJ.com.

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"There’s folks online talking about lynch mobs and that the best way for justice to be enacted is for folks to rob him and kill him," Milton Conway told NJ.com.

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