Body of high school student found dead in rolled-up gym mat to be exhumed for second time
The parents of Kendrick Johnson asked Valdosta City officials to exhume his body, which is set to occur on Friday. This will be the third autopsy on Johnson.
His mother, Jackie, wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday that it breaks her heart to exhume her son’s body, but that it “has to be done.”
“Lord this again is one [of the] hard things to bear in life, [which is] the death of a child. On Friday June 22 my son Kendrick Kj Johnson body will be exhumed for the 2nd time to have a 3rd autopsy done, Lord to have to disturb his resting place breaks my heart into so many pieces, but it has to be done. [I] don’t know how much more I can take,” she wrote.
“The worst part is to have to bury him a 3rd time feels like another whole funeral and he’s leaving us again. KJ LIFE MATTERED!” she concluded.
Kendrick's dead body was found lodged inside the gym mat in Lowndes High School in January 2013. The first autopsy showed Johnson died of “accidental positional asphyxia." Authorities believe he got stuck in the mat while reaching for a pair of sneakers, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
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