Final Call News
In this Dec. 13, 2013 file photo, Kenneth and Jacquelyn Johnson stand next to a banner on their SUV showing their late son, Kendrick Johnson, in Valdosta, Ga. A Georgia sheriff said March 10, he’s reopened an investigation into the 2013 death of the teenager, whose body was found inside a rolled-up gym mat at his high school. AP Photo/Russ Bynum, File
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
For Kendrick Johnson’s family, it has been eight long agonizing years since the 17-year-old was found dead in the gymnasium at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Ga., wrapped in a gym mat upside down on January 11, 2013. The county sheriff’s department concluded after its short investigation that the youth died in a freak accident. Sheriffs said he crawled into the mat while trying to recover a sneaker and suffocated.