It has been more than 12 years since 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson was found dead and wrapped up in a gym mat at a high school in Lowndes County, Georgia, and Kendrick’s family is still fighting to bring him some semblance of justice—or at least set the record straight about how the teen’s death was not just some unexplainable freak accident that no one in particular is responsible for.

According to WMGT 41, Kendrick’s parents, Kenneth and Jacquelyn Johnson, said in court documents pertaining to a $12 million lawsuit they filed last month that their son didn’t die the way it’s listed on his official state death certificate, and they want it changed.

Kenneth and Jacquelyn are suing the Georgia Department of Public Health over its refusal to change the teen’s cause of death from accidental

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