Jerry Lawler Details His Doubts That Brian Christopher Committed Suicide

Jerry Lawler was interviewed by WMC Action News 5 in Memphis and expanded on why he has doubts that Brian Christopher Lawler’s death was a suicide.

“This has been a nightmare, as you can imagine, from the moment I got the call saying that Brian hung himself.”

“Brian being my son, I knew him, everybody around him who knew him and they all have expressed doubts.”

“We’ve received literally countless calls, text messages from people, actual eyewitnesses, that were in the jail and saw things that happened on the actual day that Brian died that now has opened up a new can of worms. It just doesn’t seem like it was suicide.”

Lawler said that despite assurances from the county sheriff that Brian Christopher would be placed in his own cell because of his notoriety, he was placed in a cell with other inmates and ended up getting into a fight. A witness told Lawler that Brian was bleeding from the head and asked for medical help, which he did not get.

“I talked to Brian Saturday morning 11 o’clock the day he died,” Jerry said. “He talked perfectly normal, perfectly rational.”

A couple of hours later Jerry Lawler’s fiancée Lauryn got a call from the jail.

“Lauryn got a call about 2 in the afternoon that said Brian had been in a fight in the jail,” Jerry said.

Jerry said the fight was described as no big deal.

“An inmate was actually playing cards with Brian when the altercation happened when Brian got hit,” Jerry said.

Jerry said witnesses described Brian as bleeding from the head asking for medical help that he apparently didn’t get at the jail.

Then four or five hours later, the call came in that Brian had hung himself.

“It just doesn’t pass the smell test,” Jerry said.

Lawler also talked about marks on Brian’s neck.

Another reason Jerry believes that is because of photos of Brian taken in the hospital before he died.

Jerry said the sheriff told his fiancée that Brian used his shoestrings to hang himself. The photos show marks on either side of Brian’s neck, but not in the front of his neck.

“Just look at his neck and look at his hand,” Jerry said. “You can see the lines on his neck all the way around here to here and what would be the length of your hand as if he was trying to keep the pressure off.”

“I think the pictures indicate something other than someone hanging himself with a shoelace,” Jerry’s lawyer Ted Hansom said.

Lawler also said that he was told that 20 of the cameras inside the jail were not working.

The case is being investigated by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.

Lawler added that he won’t quit “until we find out exactly what happened.”