New evidence has been released in the death of the teen found rolled up in a gym mat at his high school.
Black kid found dead in gym mat.
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 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.
Then came the doubts about investigators conclusion that it was an accident.
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.
Johnson s body was found in 2013 in a rolled up gym mat at lowndes county high school.
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 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.
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.
Family of teen found dead in a rolled up gym mat requesting federal death investigation be reopened.