A Pennsylvania father is seeking answers after his teen son died on Friday night after allegedly being chased by other teens who had come to his home and asked him to play a game of tag, the father told ABC News.
Orville Johnson told the reporters that his son, Justin Johnson, had sickle cell disease, and he understood that because of his condition, the teen could not run or exert too much energy because it could “cost him his life if he has to do anything like that.”
Johnson said regarding his son that “he was so special”, and would have turned 17 on Tuesday. He added “I do everything in my life to make sure he can live a good life, and they took him away from me.”
The Dauphin County coroner ruled Justin Johnson died of natural causes from complications of sickle cell disease, also listing cardiomyopathy as a significant contributor, local ABC affiliate WHTM reported Tuesday.
Around 8:20 p.m. on Friday, the 16-year-old was at home in Harrisburg, PA, when a group of four teenagers went over to his house. As one of the teens rang the doorbell holding what appears to be a toy gun, come outside”, home security videos provided at ABC News show.
During the call and while standing in Johnson’s lawn, the teen tells Johnson, “Justin, I see you in the window, and to “come out”.
Orville Johnson was notified by the home security system that someone was outside the door, which prompted him to let his son know someone was at the door, she told ABC reporters.
A lawyer, Nick Johnson, who is representing the family, told ABC News that the teens were first seen coming to Justin Johnson’s home on Monday night while both father and teen were home. Justin Johnson came out and briefly spoke to one of the teens before going back to the basement of the house, where he’d been with his dad before the teens arrived.
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