Kendrick Johnson was a regular teen. He played basketball, football, and track. Kendrick attended Lowdens County Highschool in Georgia. At seventeen years old on January eleventh he was found deceased inside of a gym mat. Police said that Kendrick died of positional asphyxia. Twenty-twenty-three marks ten years since Kendrick’s death. They assumed that Kendrick had jumped inside the gym mat and got stuck. Kendrick’s death was reported as an accident, but evidence shows Kendrick was murdered because he had stored his shoes previously inside the mats, the measurements of his shoulders, and the blunt force trauma to his neck. It is important to understand the extra use of the mats for the students. According to Ashley Flowers, it is reported Kendrick had stored his shoes in the mat prior to his death. It is additionally informed Kendrick and one of his friends shared a pair of shoes and stored it in the mat’s stated Flowers. This shows that Kendrick would not have tried to jump into the mat to grab his shoes because he had moved to the mat to get them before. With this in mind, Flowers also adds that many students at the school stored their shoes in the mat’s because they …show more content…
Secondly, it is a fact that Kendrick’s shoulders are 19 inches apart and the diameter of the mat was 14 inches apart. There is a picture shown on the Crime Junkie podcast of Kendrick’s father trying to fit in the mat’s hole. It would be unusual for Kendrick to slide into the mat. Given the measurements of Kendrick’s shoulders and the diameter of the mat, it would make him unable to fit in the mats on his own. It is also stated that positional asphyxia is a very rare cause of death. Research from Public Medical Libraries shows that there is only .03% of deaths in Lithuania are caused by positional asphyxia. This is important because it shows a more likely probability of Kendrick’s murder rather than an accident. Equally important is Kendrick’s