So, recently, a case, particularly in the high school I currently attend in South Georgia, United States, has received national attention from CNN and other news agencies, and is about to have a soon-to-be lawsuit, according to the parents, I believe. I've heard rumors in school that the parents were planning on suing the school district or something. This case is about the death of a teenager named Kendrick Johnson.
Kendrick Johnson died in January of 2013, and the police ruled it as an accident; as he apparently reached down into a gym mat and fell inside and got stuck and ended up dying of positional asphyxia, basically when you die of being crushed by your own weight, or when you're upside down for too long.
This case is receiving multitude of attention because apparently a lot of the details surrounding the case doesn't add up. First, there's contamination of the crime scene (no use of shoe protections), the coroner not being called until hours after the body was discovered, the body being moved from the original death position, the hospital medics that arrived on scene called the gym a "crime scene", though police disregarded it, the police department not answering any questions about the case, substances on the walls not being tested or objects at the scene not being taken into evidence, organs from Kendrick's body missing after the initial autopsy, and the recent new autopsy done on Kendrick's body which apparently rules Kendrick's death as a homicide, as opposed to an accident. "That autopsy, conducted June 15, found blunt force trauma to the right neck and soft tissues, 'consistent with inflicted injury.'"
The family's been calling on lawyers, news stations, and rally's to be held at the Board of Education. I've actually personally seen a ton of rally's being held at the school, the Board of Education (the Board is actually very very close to the school, a good solid minute away), and the court house.
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The day the death occurred was a crazy day, indeed. I was in my second class (Letter B), out of four, and students were talking about how there was a dead body at the school. I first heard he was murdered by a gunshot wound, then I heard he was stabbed, and I heard a lot of fake stories. But I had heard he died in the old Gym (Letter A). Walking out of my second class to go to the Lunchroom (B to C), I hear chilling screams coming from the parking lot (Letter D) (apparently from the mother of the teenager), and administrators from the school telling people to not go near the Gym and to stay away from the parking lot. So when we got into lunch, everybody was talking about it. So many rumors. The police later arrived, placed crime scene tape across the Gym and around the Lunch room (the gym was located next door to the Lunchroom. The Gym was torn down and is now the new and improved band room.). The administrators would not let anyone leave the Lunchroom for a long time. They tried to explain to us that nothing bad happened and that they would "inform us" about anything that they heard (of course, they didn't). That day, around 800-1,000 or so kids got checked out from school, a good one-third of the school's population.
The next day was even worse though. Police flooded the school, patrolled the hallways during class time, searched cars for valid IDs and parking decals when a student drove on campus, patrolled every student getting dropped off at school. I would say there was a good 10x more police there than any other day (which would be a usual 3 or 2, maybe 4).
Crazy poop indeed.
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Kendrick Johnson died in January of 2013, and the police ruled it as an accident; as he apparently reached down into a gym mat and fell inside and got stuck and ended up dying of positional asphyxia, basically when you die of being crushed by your own weight, or when you're upside down for too long.
This case is receiving multitude of attention because apparently a lot of the details surrounding the case doesn't add up. First, there's contamination of the crime scene (no use of shoe protections), the coroner not being called until hours after the body was discovered, the body being moved from the original death position, the hospital medics that arrived on scene called the gym a "crime scene", though police disregarded it, the police department not answering any questions about the case, substances on the walls not being tested or objects at the scene not being taken into evidence, organs from Kendrick's body missing after the initial autopsy, and the recent new autopsy done on Kendrick's body which apparently rules Kendrick's death as a homicide, as opposed to an accident. "That autopsy, conducted June 15, found blunt force trauma to the right neck and soft tissues, 'consistent with inflicted injury.'"
The family's been calling on lawyers, news stations, and rally's to be held at the Board of Education. I've actually personally seen a ton of rally's being held at the school, the Board of Education (the Board is actually very very close to the school, a good solid minute away), and the court house.
See map reference at the bottom for letters.
The day the death occurred was a crazy day, indeed. I was in my second class (Letter B), out of four, and students were talking about how there was a dead body at the school. I first heard he was murdered by a gunshot wound, then I heard he was stabbed, and I heard a lot of fake stories. But I had heard he died in the old Gym (Letter A). Walking out of my second class to go to the Lunchroom (B to C), I hear chilling screams coming from the parking lot (Letter D) (apparently from the mother of the teenager), and administrators from the school telling people to not go near the Gym and to stay away from the parking lot. So when we got into lunch, everybody was talking about it. So many rumors. The police later arrived, placed crime scene tape across the Gym and around the Lunch room (the gym was located next door to the Lunchroom. The Gym was torn down and is now the new and improved band room.). The administrators would not let anyone leave the Lunchroom for a long time. They tried to explain to us that nothing bad happened and that they would "inform us" about anything that they heard (of course, they didn't). That day, around 800-1,000 or so kids got checked out from school, a good one-third of the school's population.
The next day was even worse though. Police flooded the school, patrolled the hallways during class time, searched cars for valid IDs and parking decals when a student drove on campus, patrolled every student getting dropped off at school. I would say there was a good 10x more police there than any other day (which would be a usual 3 or 2, maybe 4).
Crazy poop indeed.
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