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Mar 5, 2015 · VALDOSTA, Ga. — Brian Bell is a linebacker without a team, just the latest twist in a complicated tale in which race and class intersect with a mysterious death that authorities call accidental...
Jul 30, 2021 · Kendrick's classmates Brian and Branden Bell, who are white, were considered persons of interest, through an FBI investigation of the case, according to Valdosta Today. Their father, Rick...
Feb 4, 2015 · Three-star Valdosta, Ga., linebacker Brian Bell had been a verbal commitment to FSU, although a serious and tragic off-field incident had clouded that commitment leading up to National Signing Day. Bell was named late month in a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family Kendrick Johnson , a fellow student at Lowndes High School ...
Aug 3, 2015 · Two and a half years ago, Brian Bell, a former football star at Lowndes High School in Valdosta Ga., first was investigated in the death of a classmate.
- How Did Kendrick Johnson Die?
- How Does A Florida State Football Recruit Factor Into this?
- Is Brian Bell Considered A Suspect?
- Why Did Florida State Pull Bell’s Scholarship offer?
Local authorities initially ruled his death an accident. The Johnsons never accepted this explanation and began campaigning for a more thorough investigation almost immediately after his body had been found.
There are two reasons Bell’s name has come up in this case. First, he and his brother Brandon received letters from the U.S. attorney’s office informing them they were targets of the grand jury investigation, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Second, both of the Bell brothers, along with their father, are named in a wrongful death suit...
While the Bell brothers are defendants in the civil suit brought by the Johnsons, no law enforcement official has named either of the Bells as criminal suspects. The local sheriff’s office has stood by its initial ruling that Johnson’s death was accidental. Federal investigators have said very little since beginning their investigation in October 2...
Lowndes High football coach Randy McPherson released a statement to the Valdosta Daily Times on Wednesday morning: “Last Wednesday morning Coach Jimbo Fisher told me that the FSU Athletic Director and the president would not let him give Brian Bell a scholarship. We went to meet with the FSU president the next day. The next morning, Jimbo called me...
Apr 13, 2016 · VALDOSTA — A freshman year spent playing special teams is paying off for Akron rising sophomore Brian Bell. The former Lowndes High star was utilized by the Zips on special teams last fall as...
Mar 9, 2015 · DECATUR, Ga. -- The family for high school football star Brian Bell, who had a scholarship withdrawn by Florida State just before the national signing day in February, has filed a $1 million...
