Black Kid Found Dead In Gym Mat

Attorneys for the johnson family expressed fears that the camera footage was edited as part of a cover up.

Black kid found dead in gym mat.

Family of teen found dead in a rolled up gym mat requesting federal death investigation be reopened. 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. The 17 year old s body was found stuck in an upright mat that had been rolled up and propped upright behind bleachers in the school gym the morning after his parents had reported him missing. The death of 17 year old kendrick johnson was awful enough for his parents.

Then came the doubts about investigators conclusion that it was an accident. Tragedy struck in valdosta georgia when a popular high school football player was found dead trapped in a rolled up tubular wrestling mat in the school s gymnasium. 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. 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.

Johnson s body was found in 2013 in a rolled up gym mat at lowndes county high school.