One of the kids that was chasing him said Justin (the deceased) was “going back to Africa” or some such racist nonesense after losing him, then an hour later Justin walked back to his house and went inside alone.

According to an autopsy report, Johnson’s cause of death was complications of sickle cell disease, which the teen’s father confirmed he was diagnosed with. A coroner said Johnson also suffered from cardiomyopathy.

Sounds like a stressed event but the father and the headline want me to think they lynched him or something. The police implied they might charge the teens if they knew about his pre existing condition