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Lift up the vehicle and save the person. here they just didnt get the vehicle lifted up off him soon enough. >> so was the car actually i mean on top of him? could he have slid out if he was conscious? >> yes. no. because the vehicle was pressed on top of his body. so he had no room to crawl out from the vehicle itself. the injuries, the injury patterns, show that the vehicle was actually pressed on top of his body. this type of accident happens when people are working under their car and the ja...

You cant breathe. so you die of this positional asphyxia. this is the same type of death. >> clearly the family disagrees with what you believe it is and disagrees with what dr. bao found. how easy would it be to get a second opinion, to gt either another autopsy done or a review of the autopsy that was done? >> oh, absolutely. in fact, this case was presented to the grand jury and under florida statutes vehicular homicide, you have to be speeding and police are allowed to speed. you have to be ...

>> an accident we just didnt believe. >> reporter: soon after kendricks body was discovered upside down in the center of this gym mat, investigators determined there was no foul play and kendrick accidently got stuck while reaching for this shoe. the official finding of the states autopsy, positional asphyxia, that kendrick was suffocated by his body weight. >> when i viewed his body sunday, you can see something happened. >> reporter: so could the first responders. in a report paramedics consid...

>> an accident we just didnt believe. >> reporter: soon after kendricks body was discovered upside down in the center of this gym mat, investigators determined there was no foul play and kendrick accidently got stuck while reaching for this shoe. the official finding of the states autopsy, positional asphyxia, that kendrick was suffocated by his body weight. >> when i viewed his body sunday, you can see something happened. >> reporter: so could the first responders. in a report paramedics consid...

Son kendrick was murdered at his high school in georgia. >> an accident we just didnt believe. >> reporter: soon after kendricks body was discovered upside down in the center of this gym mat, investigators determined there was no foul play and kendrick accidently got stuck while reaching for this shoe. the official finding of the states autopsy, positional asphyxia, that kendrick was suffocated by his body weight. >> when i viewed his body sunday, you can see something happened. >> reporter: so ...

We always leave our shoes inside the mats during class but to retrieve the shoes we tilt the mats over and get the shoes from the bottom. this is kendrick inside the matt. his familys attorney gave us this photo. detectives think kendrick reached for a black gym shoe from the top of the six foot matt, slipped into the center and got stuck while no one was around and a relative says the shoes in this picture are his, too. the official cause of death is positional asphyxia. in other words, he was ...