positional asphyxia, kendrick was suffocated by his body weight but a second autopsy paid for by the johnsons shows he died from blunt force trama, a blow to the neck. hundreds have rallied for months for answers and moore says he s received calls from manyson supporters. i appreciate the depth of those concerns, but at this time, what we need are people with facts and knowledge surrendering the circumstances for mr. johnson s death to present them to us. reporter: while sheriff prien has every confidence his officers investigation was handled with the necessary diligence to make sure all leads were examined and exhausted, he welcomes the u.s. attorneys further review of the case. justice for kj is coming. reporter: his family is grateful but call it a stepping stone.
on the whole wal and why they never found whose blood it was and the state s autopsy. the official cause of death was positional asphyxia, kendrick was suffocated by his body weight but a second autopsy paid for by the johnson s found that kendrick died from blunt force trauma, a blow to the neck. hundreds have rallied for months for answers and moore says he s received calls from many of the johnson supporters. i appreciate the depth of those concerns, but at this time, what we need are people with facts and knowledge of the circumstances surrounding mr. johnson s death to present those to us. reporter: written in part, while the sheriff s office has every confidence his officers investigation was handled with the necessary diligence to make sure all leads were examined and exhausted, he welcomes the u.s. attorneys further review of the case. justice for kj is coming. reporter: kendrick s family is grateful for the
14 1/2-inch rolled gym mat opening to reach his shoe in the middle of a school day. they spoke with wolf blitzer moments after the announcement. i believe indeed that he was murdered. do you have any idea who may have murdered him? no, i don t. that s what we want to get down to the truth. the only question we want to know is why are they covering up for whoever killed their son. reporter: questions to the sheriff s department has made the johnson s suspicion, including why these shoes found yards from kendrick s body were not collected as evidence and how this bloodstain ended up on this wall in the gym and why investigators never found whose blood it was. and questions have also lingered about the state s autopsy. the official cause of death was positional asphyxia, kendrick was suffocated by his own body weight, but a second autopsy paid for by the johnson s found that kendrick died from blunt force
awaited news from the faa about what gadgets they can use and when. hello, i m wolf blitzer reporting from washington. any minute now, the parents of 17-year-old kendrick johnson are expected to find out if the justice department will step in and investigate the bizarre circumstances surrounding their son s death. johnson s body was found inside a rolled up mat in his valdosta, georgia, high school back in january. his death was ruled an accident. but his parents are convinced he was murdered. a u.s. attorney in georgia s expected to announce a decision on a new investigation any moment now. we ll have live coverage of that. in fact, here he is right now, michael moore. becoming accidentally lodges in the mat. shortly after the results of that autopsy were released and
the small south georgia city. demonstrators want answers in the death of kendrick johnson and soon a u.s. attorney will announce whether or not he wants answers too. in january he was found dead at school. investigators with the county sheriff s office said he squeezed his 19 inch shoulders into the 14 1/2 inch center of this rolled gym mat and got stuck upside down while reaching for this shoe. after an autopsy a medical examiner with the georgia bureau of investigation agreed the official cause of death was accidental positional asphyxia. he was cufficated by his body weight. we examined the alternatives and the only that fit the evidence and the pardon meial evidence we received was this is an accident. an accident. we just didn t believe it. kendrick s parents kenneth