Black Kid Found Dead In Gym Mat

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.

Black kid found dead in gym mat. Johnson s body was found in 2013 in a rolled up gym mat at lowndes county high school. 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. Attorneys for the johnson family expressed fears that the camera footage was edited as part of a cover up.

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 death of 17 year old kendrick johnson was awful enough for his parents. New evidence has been released in the death of the teen found rolled up in a gym mat at his high school. The area where johnson s body was discovered where the gym mats were stored was outside the range of all of the surveillance cameras.

Family of teen found dead in a rolled up gym mat requesting federal death investigation be reopened.