STORY: "Local officials probe claim of confession in Kendrick Johnson gym-mat death," by reporter Victor Blackwell, published by CNN on March 20, 2014.
SUB-HEADING: "E-mail leads to gym-mat death clues."
STORY HIGHLIGHTS: "Kendrick Johnson's body was found in a rolled-up mat in his high school gym. The teen's death more than a year ago was ruled an accident. CNN obtains an e-mail sent anonymously claiming reports of confession in the death. The anonymous e-mail to the sheriff's department sparks a subpoena for Internet records."
GIST: "A Lowndes County, Georgia, assistant district attorney has ordered a communications company to hand over Internet records after investigators received an anonymous e-mail claiming an ex-schoolmate reportedly confessed to killing Kendrick Johnson. CNN obtained the e-mail and the subpoena on Monday, in response to a state Open Records Act request submitted to the Lowndes County Sheriff's Office. The anonymous e-mail tip is dated January 27. The sender of the e-mail does not suggest he or she personally witnessed a confession; instead, the sender claims to have been told information by somebody who purportedly was aware of a confession in the 2013 death by one of the people implicated in the e-mail. Johnson's body was found in a rolled-up mat in the Lowndes High School gymnasium on January 11, 2013. Investigators with the sheriff's office ruled his death accidental, concluding that Johnson climbed into the center of the gym mat to reach for a shoe and got stuck.".........Kenneth and Jacquelyn Johnson believe their son was beaten to death and officials are "covering up a murder." An independent pathologist, hired by Johnson's parents, concluded Johnson's death was the result of a homicide after finding evidence of "unexplained apparent non-accidental blunt force trauma" to Johnson's neck."
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