Teresa Carter just doesnt understand what happened to her son Chavis in the back of a police car. Officers picked him up, said he had drugs on him, and missed a court date on more drugs charges.
As protocol he was handcuffed behind his back and double locked, and searched, said Sergeant Lyle Waterworth, Jonesboro Police.
Somehow minutes later police say they heard a thumping noised, turned around and found Chavis dead, shot in the head, in the back of the squad car.
Any given officer has missed something on a search, be it drugs, knife, razor blades, this instance it happened to be a gun said Waterworth.
Theyre still investigating but they think Chavis, somehow managed to pull out a hidden gun and shot himself in the head.
His mother disagrees, I think they killed him, my son wasnt suicidal., said Teresa Carter.
She says her son called his girlfriend while pulled over, to say hed call her from jail. The mother said she was also told her son was shot in his right temple. But she says he was left handed. She says it just doesnt add up.
Police say theyre still investigating and havent ruled out the possibility that someone else may have shot Chavis Carter. The officer involved is on leave while they investigate.
Cacs being cacs