Student Dies In Wrestling Mat

A georgia couple s quest to learn what happened to their son who was found dead in a rolled up wrestling mat in his high school gym took a horrifying turn when a second autopsy found the teen.

Student dies in wrestling mat.

Kendrick johnson 17 was found dead in a rolled up wrestling mat at his high school in january. To 12 02 p m and then the team and coaches boarded a. Authorities said he suffocated after falling into the mat while trying to retrieve a shoe. Authorities say a south georgia high school student apparently climbed atop an upright roll of wrestling mats fell into a center opening and died after he became trapped inside.

The parents of a teenage student found dead and rolled up in a gym mat at a us high school believe their son met with foul play and were shocked to discover he had been buried with organs missing. Tragedy struck in valdosta georgia when a popular high school football player was found dead trapped in a rolled up tubular wrestling mat in the school s gymnasium. The parents of a georgia high school student who was found dead in a rolled up gym mattress five years ago will exhume their son s body for the second time in order to prove the 17 year old s. On january 11 2013 the body of kendrick johnson october 10 1995 january 10 2013 was discovered inside a vertical rolled up mat in the gymnasium of lowndes high school in valdosta in the u s.

Kendrick johnson died of positional asphyxia when he fell into a wrestling mat to recover shoes he shared with another student in an auxillary gym. A preliminary investigation and autopsy concluded that the death was accidental. Johnson s family had a private pathologist conduct a second autopsy.