Well,
THAT has nothing to do with the post you are responding to.
Since 7forever seems once again intent to keep the discussion off topic and not progressing
in his own thread I'll cut to the chase and get this project moving forward. I hope Calamity is not reading this because I will exceed 500 words and we know how his brain melts down after 100.
First off, lets start with the necessary context, unsurprisingly missing from the OP:
Kendrick Johnson was a 17-year-old student at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, GA. On 11 January, 2013 Kendrick was found dead inside a rolled-up wrestling mat in an inverted position, head-first, upside down in the schools "old" gym. After a 4 month investigation the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office ruled the death an accident. The autopsy performed by the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI) determined the cause of death as
positional asphyxia. Kendrick’s parents Jackie and Kenneth Johnson dispute this and
maintain that Kendrick’s death was a homicide committed by fellow students.
The old gym at LHS was used to store equipment including 6-foot gym mats (wrestling mats), some of which would be rolled up and then stood vertically, some of which were sided. Many students including Kendrick would store gym clothes and equipment inside the rolled up vertical mats to avoid paying locker fees. When they needed to get their stuff they would just tip the mat over far enough to grab it out from underneath. During Christmas break
many more wrestling mats were added to the collection in the gym.
Around 1:30 pm on 10 January, Kendrick Johnson was seen on the school’s video surveillance cameras walking into the old gym to get a pair of shoes he and another student stored in the mats. No one followed Kendrick, and no one else walks into the gym for another three minutes after he entered. On that day,
Kendrick’s previously accessible storage mat was now buried behind several new mats moved into the gym over the Christmas break. Kendrick was marked absent from his next class and failed to return home after a freshmen basketball game he was supposed to attend that afternoon. Kendrick's mother reported him missing to police at midnight and to the school the next morning.
Around 10:30 am a few female students were sitting on sided mats when they noticed socks sticking out the top of one of the upright mats. One student climbed the bleachers to look inside and saw Kendrick’s body. Unable to pull Kendrick out the student called 911 on a cell phone. Then, with the help of a teacher, some of the students knocked over the mat and partially pulled Kendrick out head-first, but it quickly became obvious from the smell of decomposition and the presence of blood and vomit that Kendrick was already dead. Kendrick had been dead in an inverted position for 21 hours.
Every student present when Kendrick was found was interviewed their stories all lined up. Investigators took video was taken of the scene (which I will not link too but you can find yourself if you want - its GRAPHIC!). Investigators found 2 pairs of shoes in the mat with Kendrick. One pair he had been wearing and were off but near his feet when he was found. Kendrick’s socks were partially pulled off. The other pair were the pair he was retrieving and were on the floor, near his head where they had been stored.
The only blood found at the scene was inside the mat. Nothing outside the mat or on the school book and yellow folder Kendrick was carrying. No blood was found on his legs, feet or on the shoes he was wearing. Some old blood was found on a column near the mats, but it was determined to
not be from Kendrick. Bloody tissues found in the girls bathroom trash can contained female DNA and were determined to be from a student who was hit in the face with a flag during a practice. No blood was found in or on the second pair of shoes on the floor either, the blood having dripped from Kendrick onto the floor and pooling around the shoes which makes it extremely unlikely Kendrick was bleeding
before he went into the mat, only after.
Based on that information can anyone hazard a guess as to what happened? Anyone besides 7forever?
OK, here's my take. Kendrick, unable to retrieve his shoes the usual way by simply tipping over his mat because a bunch of other mats had been stacked in front of it, decided to try and grab the shoes by reaching down from the top. In the process of doing this he got stuck and his attempts to extricate himself failed, which is when his shoes came off. He then suffocated - positional asphyxia.
Or one could claim he was murdered if one so chooses but don't forget about the complete lack of suspects, motive, murder weapon, physical evidence, and witnesses.