Parents: Cops’ Story of Son’s Suicide Sounds Shaky

December 17th, 2008

Parents: Cops’ story of son’s suicide sounds shaky. The parents of a Mississippi high school star athlete aren’t buying the cops’ story that their son shot himself to death during a traffic stop. They want the NAACP to initiate an independent autopsy to determine how Billey Joe Johnson, of George County High School. The officer who stopped the 17-year-old running back said that he had gone back to his patrol car to do a license check and heard a gunshot. He said he then saw Johnson fall out of the driver side of the car with the shotgun on top of him. “The NAACP, along with the family, have determined that Billey Joe Johnson did not commit suicide,” Curley Clark, the vice president of the NAACP’s Mississippi chapter told The Mississippi Press. “At this point, nothing is concrete until the results of the autopsies have been made known.” Clark said the civil rights group will have the results of a second autopsy done this week.” This incident will not be swept under the rug,” Clark told WLOX. “We are going to make sure all the facts are brought out. We are going to provide the proper assistance necessary to sure no civil rights were violated.” Johnson’s brother, Eddie, said that Billey loved to hunt and would sometimes go early in the morning before heading to school. That, he said, would explain why his brother had a shotgun in his car. Billy rushed for more than 4,000 yards in his high school career and had scholarship offers from Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State and Oregon.

TAGS: athlete, Billey Joe Johnson, cops, George County High Schoo, Mississippi, star, suicide

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B-Air#1 of H-town Said on December 22nd, 2008

you guys are over-reacting about this. if the cop shot him all they have to do is pull up the police cruiser cam. Dont expect Obama to come to the rescue and sentence everyone who is racist the death penalty. Racism stands for watching an act of bigitry(i think that is how you spell it) and not saying anything about it. Bigitry stands for doing acts of hate towards a diff. race gender etc… so get your facts straight

WUTEVA Said on December 22nd, 2008

First off we all know shaniqua and ohlawdy are white people trying to do what they do best by hiding their stupid racial remarks with their mis-spelling. Go sit down somewhere find something better to do with your time.Back to the situation at hand, would we be pulling the race card if it had been a black cop in the same situation? We as people have to realize you can’t always pull the race card. Yes there are alot of racist people out there but at the same time everytime you bring race into play you are putting yourself on that page. God Bless his soul and may God be with his family.God will shed light on the situation and justice will prevail.

LadyofWisdom Said on December 22nd, 2008

Thank You, Tiffany

You do make a dam good point, How may cops you know that will go back to his car knowing a young black man had a shot gun inside his car, which the cop probably thought he was involved in some murder or robbery ONLY because he’s black, not even consider to think that he hunts but if he was white, the cop would have considered that though. I think the cop panic and shot him right on the spot when he saw that shotgun, then lied about the whole thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!