Family of teen found dead in a rolled up gym mat requesting federal death investigation be reopened.
Black kid found dead in gym mat.
The wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of the south georgia teen found dead in a rolled gym mat has been dismissed by a federal judge.
Attorneys for the johnson family expressed fears that the camera footage was edited as part of a cover up.
The area where johnson s body was discovered where the gym mats were stored was outside the range of all of the surveillance cameras.
The parents of a georgia high school student who was found dead in a rolled up gym mattress five years ago will exhume their son s body for the second time in order to prove the 17 year old s.
Then came the doubts about investigators conclusion that it was an accident.
Johnson s body was found in 2013 in a rolled up gym mat at lowndes county high school.
The parents of a georgia teenager found dead inside a rolled up gym mat are in a state of bewilderment after the justice department decided to close a long investigation into the 2013 death.
The death of 17 year old kendrick johnson was awful enough for his parents.
Investigators initially concluded that johnson s death was accidental resulting from the teen getting trapped inside the gym mat after reaching for a shoe then dying of asphyxia but an independent autopsy contradicted the conclusion reached by the sheriff s department.