Gym Mat Death Investigation

Family of teen found dead in a rolled up gym mat requesting federal death investigation be reopened kendrick johnson s body was found in lowndes county high school in 2013.

Gym mat death investigation.

Federal authorities announce october 31 2013 they will conduct a formal investigation into the death of 17 year old kendrick johnson whose body was found rolled up inside of a gym mat on january. The investigation into the death of a teenager whose body was found inside a rolled up gym mat at a georgia high school and whose death was ruled accidental is closed the georgia bureau. Johnson was a black boy who was found upside down and rolled up in a school gym mat yet the georgia bureau of investigation gbi ruled the death was an accident. His body was discovered by students who had climbed up to the top of a cluster of mats each of which stood nearly six feet tall and three feet wide.

End investigation into ga. Two georgia brothers under investigation for the 2013 death of a classmate found in a rolled up gym mat spoke out for the first time. A 17 year old lowndes high sophomore is found inside a rolled up gym mat in the school s old gymnasium. Johnson was found headfirst in the center of a vertical rolled up wrestling mat in his high school gym on january 11 2013.

Fbi report raises serious questions about gym mat death investigation.