Now, attorneys for Kenneth and Jacquelyn Johnson have filed a wide-ranging, $100 million lawsuit that claims several former classmates beat their son to death inside the old gym at his south Georgia high school in January 2013. The suit names 37 people, mostly members of local law enforcement, plus the city of Valdosta as defendants.
The four-count lawsuit was filed Monday in Superior Court of DeKalb County in metro Atlanta, more than 200 miles from Lowndes County, where Johnson was found dead January 11, 2013. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s headquarters is in DeKalb County.
‘Violently assaulted’
In the filing, attorneys claim Johnson was “induced” by a female student to go to the old gym at Lowndes High School on January 10, 2013. Attorneys do not name the female student.
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An attorney representing Lowndes County Schools had no comment.
Several calls made and emails sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for comment have not been returned.
Attorneys for Johnson’s parents made similar claims by amending a 2013 lawsuit against Sheriff Prine and Lowndes County Schools in the Superior Court of Lowndes County on Friday.
In 2013, a judge granted CNN’s request to intervene in the suit filed in Lowndes County related to claims of violations to Georgia’s Open Records Law.
