“Lord to have to disturb his resting peace breaks my heart into so many pieces but it has to be done,” Jacquelyn Johnson posted of her son on Facebook at the time. Read More: Georgia GOP leaders who stood up to Trump back voting bills In 2018, they asked for and received permission to exhume their son’s body to have a third autopsy conducted. State and local officials ruled Johnson suffocated after reaching for a pair of sneakers inside a mat and getting stuck, theGrio previously reported.īut his parents never accepted that his death was an accident. The body of the high school sophomore was discovered rolled up in a gym mat.
