
VALDOSTA – A weekend of events commemorating the life of Kendrick Johnson ended Sunday with a prayer vigil at Sunset Hill Cemetery.
Sunday marked the passing of three years since Johnson’s body was found upside down in a vertically-stored athletic mat at Lowndes High School. A state autopsy ruled the 17-year-old’s death accidental, but Johnson’s parents insist their son died of foul play.
Jacquelyn Johnson, Kendrick’s mother, reportedly told WCTV there was a lack of support for the events from community members from the Valdosta area, but supporters from Ferguson, Tampa, Deland and Atlanta came to participate. The father of Mike Brown, the St. Louis teen who was shot and killed by an office, sparking a nationwide protest movement, was in attendance, according to WALB.
A federal review of the Johnson case in its third year.










