LOWNDES COUNTY, Ga. (WTXL) - The parents of Kendrick Johnson have been ordered to pay nearly 300,000 dollars in attorney fees to those they accused of killing their son and the parties they say covered it up.
The ruling from Lowndes County Superior Court Judge Richard Porter stems from a $100 million dollar wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents in 2015
The lawsuit accused two brothers of killing their son.
The lawsuit also claimed in-part that the members of the board of education did not properly investigate a 2009 incident involving an altercation on a school bus between Johnson and another student while on a school trip to north Georgia.
In August of 2016, Judge Porter ruled that a long list of the people who were sued by the family of Johnson are entitled to get some of their attorneys' fees reimbursed.
Johnson's body was found under mysterious circumstances in a rolled up gym mat at the old Lowndes High School gym in 2013.
