New surveillance video of Kendrick Johnson’s last moments alive was finally released on Wednesday as a result of legal action filed by his family.
But the footage in the mysterious case of the Georgia teen found dead inside a rolled up wrestling mat is raising more questions than its answering.
According to CNN, there were 36 cameras inside and outside the gym of Lowndes High School in Valdosta, where Kendrick’s body was discovered.
One clip shows Johnson in the gym. A second shows him walking in, then running out of the frame. In both videos, students suddenly appear.
A third clip, which shows students playing in the gym and the mats where Johnson’s body was found, is blurry.
But an attorney for Lowndes County Sheriff Chris Prine is insisting that the video was not altered or edited by anyone within the sheriff’s office. The attorney for the school backs up that claim, saying what was provided to the sheriff’s office was the raw feed, with no edits.
But Kendrick’s family isn’t convinced. They suspect the 17-year-old was murdered and that someone is trying to cover up evidence.
“There are so many questions yet unanswered. As we’ve said before, this is a real-life murder mystery and there just seems to be more and more adding to the mystery,” Benjamin Crump, a family attorney, told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”
“His parents have always said, all they want to know is the truth. And this video tape seems to tell us that the truth has not come out yet — almost as if something was done with this one video to help conceal the truth. But we’re going to keep pressing to get the truth to this murder mystery,” he added.
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