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Lift up the vehicle and save the person. here they just didn't 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 jack slips and the car comes down and presses your chest. you can't breathe. and so you die of this p...

You can't 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 under the influence. the police weren't under the influence of alcohol or drugs. finally if they ar...

>> an accident we just didn't believe. >> reporter: soon after kendrick's 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 state's 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 considered the gym a crime scene and after a closer look at kendrick, there was bruising noted to right...

>> an accident we just didn't believe. >> reporter: soon after kendrick's 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 state's 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 considered the gym a crime scene and after a closer look at kendrick, there was bruising noted to right...

Son kendrick was murdered at his high school in georgia. >> an accident we just didn't believe. >> reporter: soon after kendrick's 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 state's 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 considered the gym a crime scene and after a c...