梅肯, 格鲁吉亚 (美国有线电视新闻网) — 将近 10 几个月后，他们的儿子死了, 肯德里克 - 约翰逊的父母终于得到了他们一直要求: 另一个调查青少年的离奇死亡在朗兹高中在瓦尔多斯塔健身房, 格鲁吉亚.
迈克尔·摩尔, 在中美. 律师为佐治亚中间区, 周四表示，联邦当局将调查的情况下落后约翰逊去世, 血淋淋的尸体被发现一个卷起的健身房内垫一月 11.
约翰逊的家人怀疑17岁的被谋杀，已经有人试图掩盖证据的情况下.
同时警告他的管辖范围是作为一个联邦检察官限制, 穆尔说，证据漫长的审查后收集当局和家庭自己的调查员说 “充分的依据存在” to warrant a formal review of the facts.
Should evidence gathered in the investigation warrant criminal or civil rights charges, he said he would recommend them.
“I will follow the facts wherever they lead. My objective is to discover the truth,” 他说：.
In addition to suspicions of a coverup, the family’s lawyer has also raised civil rights concerns, questioning whether officials in the predominantly white county took the investigation of an African-American teenager’s death seriously enough. Authorities say they did.
“We’re happy that a fresh pair of eyes is starting to look at Kendrick’s case,” Kendrick’s father, 肯尼斯·约翰逊, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday. “We’re just waiting on the truth to really come out.”
CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin called the announcement “a significant development for this family and this case.”
“Now you have the resources of the federal government, in particular the FBI,” she told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “With that type of resources directed at this investigation, there will be more answers to be found.”
The announcement comes a day after a judge granted the family and CNN access to surveillance images and investigative files related to the case, which the Lowndes County sheriff’s office had declared accidental.
CNN has been reporting on the case for months, uncovering new details of the teen’s death and raising questions about the sheriff’s office handling of the case.
除其他事项外, 导致外CNN获得的死亡场景图像施加到质疑肯德里克闷死了深远的运动鞋的官方解释.
“他的父母没有接受这个解释，他爬进一个摔跤垫被卡死了. 它飞行的所有常识的脸,” 本杰明·克伦普, 一个家庭律师, 告诉CNN的塔珀.
“这是一个神秘谋杀案而我们要得到它的底部,” 他说：.
一个神秘死亡
当局发现肯德里克的身体上一月 11, 楔入在高中体育馆卷起摔跤垫.
由CNN获得的图像 — 一个15分钟的视频和近 700 采取警长的调查照片 — 显示他的身体穿着牛仔裤和分层的橙色和白色T恤.
他的脸臃肿血池, some of which had poured out of his body, soaking his dreadlocks and spilling onto the floor.
内 24 hours of finding the body, Lowndes County Sheriff Chris Prine announced that investigators had no reason to suspect foul play in the death.
上周四, Prine’s attorney said that the sheriff welcomes Moore’s decision to review the case, and will continue to cooperate “in every way.”
“We appreciate Mr. Moore’s interest in these tragic circumstances and applaud his urging of the community to come forward with facts and evidence rather than feelings or opinions, no matter how sincere they may be,” said attorney James Elliott.
“虽然警长Prine的有信心，他的办公室的调查是必要的尽职调查处理，以确保所有线索进行了检查，并用尽, 他欢迎在U. S. 案件的检察官进一步审查,” 律师说.
但一名前联邦调查局特工被CNN接触，检讨教材质疑这些结论.
哈罗德Copus, 现在是一个私家侦探, 质疑当局如何处理证据的情况下, 包括附近的墙上，他们说发现血涂片无关的情况下.
Copus也质疑一双运动鞋是有实质内容，似乎是血对他们的处理.
办案人员告诉美国有线电视新闻网的鞋并没有收集证据，因为该物质是不是血.
尽管谁没有发现任何证据犯规动作的状态医疗检验的结果, 由家庭雇用进行一个私人病理学家 第二次尸检 掘出青少年的身体后发现，约翰逊有一个打击，右侧脖子 “与造成的伤害是一致的。”
病理学家还发现，青少年的器官没有被最初的尸检后，回到了自己的身体. 它不是被塞满了报纸.
没有器官助长了掩饰的家人的怀疑在他们儿子的死.
“他们知道事情发生在健身房, 他们不希望它出来,” 肯尼斯·约翰逊说，当时.
砖墙
几个月来, 家庭的追求答案无处去. It took until May for autopsy results to be issued, and then the sheriff’s office said the investigation had been closed.
The sheriff’s office and school officials resisted the family’s request to obtain school surveillance images and other records, citing state law that exempts the release of “education records of a minor child.”
After months of pursuing official answers and getting nowhere, they began staging daily rallies.
A Facebook tribute page and a CNN iReport submitted by Kendrick’s aunt spread the message far beyond the southeast Georgia town.
周一, a Lowndes County judge ruled that authorities had to turn over the surveillance records and files sought by the family — the first step, family attorney Chevene King said — 在寻找什么，他们说是发生了什么事的真相.
视频包含在释放和由CNN审查表明他正走在一个走廊，进入健身房.
它也显示了他里面的健身房之前，他的死亡, 与其他学生一起打篮球.
没有任何迹象表明任何在视频显示的人有周边肯德里克的死亡事件的任何知识.
民事维权案?
王声称，如果肯德里克已经发白, 调查会去不同. 他不相信种族讲述了整个故事，虽然.
“你要考虑种族作为一个因素, 但我不认为这是最终都在试图理解为什么这个案件的方式，它是处理条款,” 他周四表示，.
“We believe that, certainly, if there is a coverup it is a coverup for somebody, and not a nobody,” 他说：.
Prine, the sheriff, is white, as are about 60% of the county’s residents. 不过, sheriff’s office officials have rejected the claim that race influenced the case.
“Race never played into it,” Stryde Jones of the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office said in May. “The victim played into it. That’s who we’re working for is the victim and the victim’s family.”
King said none of the materials released Monday are expected to show exactly what happened to Kendrick.
But they could cast doubt on the official explanation and nudge officials toward reclassifying Kendrick’s death to allow a new investigation into what happened, 国王说：.
“Essentially, it shifts the focus from what the sheriff had offered to other theories that were not explored and that have I think begun to slowly creep to the surface,” King said after the hearing.
上周四, Lowndes County Coronor Bill Watson said he has not made a decision yet on whether to open a coroner’s inquest into the death. That would be the first step in reclassifying the death to something other than accidental to allow a fresh investigation into the circumstances.
Watson said he would make that decision in “the next day or so.”
“And I’m emphasizing the ‘or so’,” 他说：.
Regardless of what happens, Kenneth Johnson said Thursday the family has no choice but to keep pressing on.
“We’re fighting for Kendrick to the end,” 他说：.
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提出的意见 联邦检察官将调查肯德里克 - 约翰逊案 目前已经结束.