Student Found Dead In Gym Mat

Parents of kendrick johnson student found dead in gym mat exhume body for third autopsy.

Student found dead in gym mat.

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. School officials found johnson s body in the gym after his parents reported him missing the night before. He was stuck upside down in the middle of a wrestling mat that had been rolled up and. On january 11 2013 the body of kendrick johnson october 10 1995 january 10 2013 was discovered inside a vertical rolled up mat in the gymnasium of lowndes high school in valdosta in the u s.

Family of teen found dead in a rolled up gym mat requesting federal death. School officials found johnson s body in the gym after his parents reported him missing the night before. He was stuck upside down in the middle of a wrestling mat that had been rolled up and. Johnson s family had a private pathologist conduct a second autopsy.

He said more people finding their loved ones dead with their organs missing is a human rights issue. A preliminary investigation and autopsy concluded that the death was accidental. Chilling new photos have been released from the scene where a georgia teen was found dead inside a rolled up wrestling mat at his high school gym in january. 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.

State and local officials ruled that johnson suffocated.