New evidence from a third autopsy report in the case of slain Black teen Kendrick “K.J." Johnson has surfaced.
Back in 2013, the 17-year-old student’s body was found rolled up inside of a gym mat at South Georgia’s Lowndes High School.
According to reports, the student’s original cause of death was a result of "accidental positional asphyxia" found in the first autopsy. Lowndes County investigators concluded that Johnson got stuck while reaching into the mat to grab a shoe. His parents believed there was foul play involved and filed a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit.
Following the lawsuit, the Johnsons also requested the body be exhumed again at their expense. The second autopsy report cited non-accidental blunt force trauma to the neck as the cause of the sophomore's death.
WALB News obtained the third autopsy report, which reveals the trauma to the student's right neck and right thorax was a result of non-accidental blunt force.
The station uploaded an affidavit from Johnson’s parents that included a witness statement revealing who their son's alleged killer was. The document stated that the person struck the boy in the neck with a weight.
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"The person struck Kendrick Johnson in the neck with a 45 lb. weight or dumbbell,” it read.
It also suggested that someone had tampered with the school’s surveillance footage.
“In some way facilitated the editing of the high school’s surveillance video by corrupting or deleting some one-hour and twenty-five minutes of the original recording,” the document continued.
Fox 23 News reported that the Johnsons believe their son was killed by the two sons of a local FBI agent, Brian and Branden Bell.
"If any parent loved their child, they'll wanna know how that child died; if something happened to their child, they'll wanna know how their child died. If any parent on this earth would not wanna know how their child died, something is wrong with them," Johnson’s father shared to WALB News earlier this summer.
In 2016, the U.S Department of Justice ruled there was not enough evidence to prove foul play.
Updates on whether the case will be re-opened are pending.
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