LOWNDES COUNTY, Ga. — The parents of a Georgia teen found dead in a rolled-up gym mat have refiled a lawsuit a day after dismissing their previous one.
WALB-TV reports that Kendrick Johnson's parents refiled their lawsuit on May 21 after being told by a judge that too much time had passed in their original lawsuit. They dismissed the previous suit just one day beforehand.
The teen's parents contend that their son's clothes and organs, including his brain, were disposed of to interfere with a law enforcement investigation into the teen's death.
WALB reports that because the suit was dismissed without prejudice, the door remained open for the suit to be refiled.
Johnson's body was found in the rolled-up gym mat in 2013 at Lowndes County High School. Lowndes County is near the Georgia-Florida border about 200 miles south of Atlanta.
According to WALB, Roy Copeland, the lawyer for Harrington Funeral Home initially said he was happy to learn that the suit had been dismissed. Now that it appears the lawsuit is back in the court systems, he told the station he would "vigorously defend" his client.
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