SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Long after Kendrick Johnson was found dead inside a rolled-up gym mat at his high school in south Georgia, those closest to the case remain deeply divided over how the teenager died.
Sheriff’s investigators concluded 17-year-old Johnson died in a freak accident that left him stuck upside down and unable to breathe. Yet Johnson’s family in Valdosta insist he was killed by classmates, fellow teenagers who are accused by name in a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit Johnson’s parents filed earlier this year.