If something bad happens to me, it’s not suicide… a later left by former Boeing employee John Barnett
The case of a former Boeing employee, who was known for raising concerns about the company’s production standards, being found dead in the United States still raises many questions and surprises.
In new developments, a family friend of John Barnett said he predicted he could die after raising public concerns about Boeing after his 2017 retirement, and assured, “If anything happens, it’s not suicide”.
The friend, who didn’t reveal her full name and only called her “Jennifer,” explained to ABC 4, “I know he didn’t commit suicide,” stressing that it’s unbelievable that he did that.
Jennifer indicated that Barnett wasn’t afraid, but he assured her that if something happened to him, it wouldn’t be suicide.
Jennifer claimed that someone didn’t like what Barnett said, and wanted to silence him, suggesting that this person may have wanted to pass it off as a suicide.
It later emerged that Barnett was scheduled to testify in the lawsuit against Boeing on March 9, but never showed.
After he didn’t answer the phone, his lawyers, who were concerned about his condition, asked to check on him at the Holiday Inn in Charleston, where he was found dead in his car with a silver pistol in his hand and a bullet in his head.
Although the Charleston coroner initially described the incident as a self-inflicted wound, he later added that he was still conducting more tests to confirm the final cause of death.
It’s noteworthy that Barnett was a quality control engineer at Boeing for more than 3 decades before his retirement, and he filed an internal complaint with the company but to no avail, which prompted him to reveal the matter publicly to ensure everyone’s safety.
