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On January 10, 2013, Kendrick Johnson's parents reported their 17-year-old son missing.

The next day at Kendrick's school, Lowns High School in Valdosta, Georgia, in the

gym students saw what they thought was a pair of socks picking out of a gym mat, but

when they approached, they told investigators they realized it was a body.

According to Lowns County Sheriff Chris Prine, Kendrick Johnson died while reaching into

an upright gym mat in the old gym on January 10, trying to retrieve a sneaker that had fallen

inside.

Instead, Kendrick fell in, couldn't get out and smothered the death from positional affixiation.

The original autopsy report ruled Johnson's death an accident, stating the teen suffocated

while getting stuck in a gym mat while reaching for a sneaker.

However, Johnson's parents weren't convinced it was an accident and they got a court order

to have their son's body exhumed.

The second autopsy report showed the teen's death was not an accident, stating that Johnson

had sustained non-accidental blunt force trauma.

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