Hays ? Prosecutors on Monday charged three Fort Hays State University football players and a fourth man in the beating death of another student last month.

Kansas Atty. Gen. Phill Kline and Ellis County Atty. Tom Drees charged three football players — Bradley Deary, a 21-year-old junior from Smithville, Texas; Luis Llamas, 23, a senior from San Diego; and Christopher Ross, 19, a freshman from Wylie, Texas — and Fort Hays student Jaime Lopez III, 23, a senior from Chula Vista, Calif., with second-degree murder.

All four are accused of killing Clint Johnson, 18, of Healy, a freshman business major who was beaten in a Nov. 13 fight at an apartment complex north of the campus. Johnson died two days later at a Wichita hospital.

Deary, Llamas, Ross and Lopez were being held Monday in the Ellis County Jail on $50,000 bond. If convicted, they face between nine and 41 years in prison.

Assistant Atty. Gen. Stephen Maxwell will prosecute the case with Drees.

Llamas is a 6-foot-5, 245-pound linebacker who transferred to Fort Hays State this year from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He was the third-leading tackler on the Fort Hays team, which concluded its season Saturday.

Deary is a 6-1, 280-pound defensive lineman who had transferred from Eastern Arizona Community College.

Ross is a 6-1, 180-pound wide receiver who was an all-state performer in Wylie.