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Kendrick Johnson’s parents file wrongful death suit against Georgia school system
17-year-old Kendrick Johnson was found by classmates in the middle of a mat propped upright against the wall of their high school gym.
The Kendrick Johnson’s parents, the Georgia teenager found dead inside a rolled-up gym mat at school, have filed a wrongful death suit against local school administrators Monday, reports Fox News.
What happened?
17-year-old Kendrick Johnson was found by classmates in the middle of a mat propped upright against the wall of their high school gym Jan. 11, 2013. Investigators concluded that the teenager died in a freak accident, having become stuck upside down in the center of the mat while trying to retrieve a gym shoe. But his parents have long insisted somebody killed him.
Wrongful death lawsuit
The lawsuit filed Monday in Lowndes County Superior Court seeks to hold the county school board, school superintendent and the principal of Lowndes High School responsible. It says Johnson died “at the hands of one or more students while upon the property of Lowndes High School and during its normal hours of operation.”
Shines little new light on the case
According to Fox News, the lawsuit by parents, Kenneth and Jacquelyn Johnson shines little new light on the case. It mentions that Johnson had been in a fight with another student during a bus trip to a football game a year before his death. The lawsuit also blames school officials for not interviewing classmates “who witnessed incidents of harassment and threats” against Johnson.
The lawsuit doesn’t specifically allege that the same student who fought with Johnson on the bus trip had a role in his death. Lowndes County sheriff’s investigators have said they ruled out that student as a possible suspect after surveillance camera footage from the school showed he never entered the gym around the time Johnson went missing Jan. 10, 2013.
Kendrick Johnson’s parents are seeking unspecified monetary damages from the school system in the suit.
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