United States Marshals made a significant move this week in the ongoing investigation into Kendrick Johnson’s death in Georgia.
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No one has been charged in his death. Many are hoping after these latest moves that answers may finally be on the way. This action is related to their connection in the investigation of the death of Kendrick Johnson.
The County Attorney says the U.S. Attorney’s Office requested emails regarding the investigation of Kendrick Johnson’s death.
Benjamin Crump, co-counsel for the Johnsons, who also has represented the family of Trayvon Martin in the George Zimmerman case, of Michael Brown, who was killed by police in Ferguson, Mo., and Tamir Rice, who was shot to death by Cleveland police for holding a toy gun, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that federal prosecutors are convinced Kendrick Johnson’s death was not accidental.
Valdosta/Lowndes Regional Crime Labratory via CNN The body of 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson, seen here, was found stuffed inside a rolled-up gym mat at his Georgia high school.
But Johnson’s family believed otherwise, commissioning a second autopsy that showed the teen died of “unexplained, apparent nonaccidental blunt force trauma”.
Jim Elliot, Lowndes County Attorney, declined to provide a copy of the warrant.
As the Inquisitr has previously reported, some video footage from the gym where Johnson died was released and there were many felt the footage raised additional questions. It accuses two of Johnson’s former classmates, who are brothers, and their father, who is local FBI agent, of wrongful death.
Computers and cell phones belonging to the Bell family, and Brian Bell’s girlfriend, Taylor Eakin, were also seized this week, according to their familys’ attorney.
Back in January, Johnson’s parents filed a $100 million lawsuit claiming that former classmates beat the teen to death.
Ron Hosko of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, which also represents the family, said computers, thumb drives and cell phones were seized. The Johnson family alleges that the Bell brothers were involved in the teen’s death and that local officials helped cover up what happened. The government now possesses the privileged communications of the Bells and their lawyers, including communications in their defamation suits against Ebony Magazine and its publisher and members of the Johnson family.
In October 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice began a federal investigation.
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The search warrants issued in conjunction with the grand jury probe were served earlier this week against the families of at least two students.
