Benbrook High senior dies of crushing blow to head; authorities investigate killing
About a month before he was to have graduated from Benbrook Middle-High School, Leo David Pantalion was slain with a blow to his head at a neighbor’s mobile home in Tarrant County, authorities said.
A day after he was assaulted, the 18-year-old died on Tuesday at a hospital.
Law enforcement authorities have not announced an arrest.
Pantalion was injured about 3:15 a.m. Monday at Benbrook Village, a mobile home park in the 5100 block of Ben Day Murrin Road in an unincorporated area of south Tarrant County, according to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office.
He died of blunt force trauma with a crushing blow to his head that was a homicide, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Sheriff’s Office detectives are collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses.
Pantalion was in 12th grade at Benbrook Middle-High School, a Fort Worth Independent School District spokesman said.
Anyone with information on the death should call detectives Garcia or Smith at 817-884-1305, the sheriff’s office said.
This story was originally published May 19, 2021 at 11:13 PM.
