VALDOSTA, GA – The family of Kendrick Johnson is taking more legal action against the Lowndes County School Board.

CNN reported yesterday that the Johnson family is now filing a wrongful death lawsuit against school officials claiming their lack of attention led to his death by another student.

The family filed a negligence lawsuit earlier this year against the school board claiming the school district was negligent and violated Johnson’s constitutional right to equal protection based on race, according to CNN.

The new lawsuit blames the Lowndes County school board for allowing Johnson to die “at the hands of one or more students” while at Lowndes High School during school hours. It also claims school officials failed to “properly monitor the activities of students throughout the area” of the school’s campus and failed to “maintain a properly functioning video surveillance system.”

Johnson was found dead in a rolled up gym may at Lowndes High School in January of 2013. Investigators said the death was an accident, saying Johnson reached for a shoe in the mat and got stuck.

An independent pathologist, hired by the family, determined Johnson died from “unexplained, apparent non-accidental blunt force trauma.”

The family is still waiting for the results of a federal investigation by the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia into Johnson’s death.

Warren Turner, an attorney for the Lowndes County Schools, told CNN the school system had not been served the lawsuit as of Tuesday morning.

Source: CNN