Handcuffed Man Shot in Back of Police Car

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How Did 21-Year-Old Chavis Carter Get Shot In The Head While Handcuffed In A Police Car?

By Aviva Shen on Aug 1, 2012 at 3:30 pm

21-year-old Chavis Carter, courtesy of Facebook.
Police in Jonesboro, Arkansas have launched an investigation into how 21-year-old Chavis Carter was shot in the back of a patrol car Saturday night.

Carter, who died at the hospital, was in the passenger seat of a pickup truck that was pulled over by police just before 10 pm, reports WREG. According to Officer Keith Baggett who was on the scene, Officer Ron Marsh found “some marijuana” and several new plastic baggies when he searched Carter. When they ran his information through dispatch, they found that he was wanted on a warrant in Mississippi, where he lived. The cops then handcuffed him, searched him again, and put him in the back of the patrol car. While Baggett searched the vehicle, he claims he heard “a loud thump with a metallic sound” on his trunk and saw Marsh motion to him.

The thumping noise, according to the cops, was Carter shooting himself in the head.

The police report attributed the death to a self-inflicted gunshot, though when the two officers opened the squad car door, they found Carter’s hands were still cuffed behind his back. The gun, they said, was somehow missed in both searches.

“Any given officer has missed something on a search, be it drugs, knife, razor blades, this instance it happened to be a gun,” Jonesboro Police Sergeant Lyle Waterworth said after the bizarre incident. The police believe that Chavez managed to pull out a hidden gun and shot himself in spite of the handcuffs.

Carter’s mother, Teresa, however, suspects foul play: “I think they killed him, my son wasn’t suicidal.”

According to Teresa, Carter called his girlfriend while he was pulled over to tell her he’d call her from jail. She also said her son was shot in his right temple, when he was left-handed.

The two officers involved are now on administrative leave until the investigation concludes.

How Did 21-Year-Old Chavis Carter Get Shot In The Head While Handcuffed In A Police Car? | ThinkProgress


It doesn't sound like they've found the murder weapon um....
 

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Y'all americans don't rally against this type of stuff ? No protest, no riot ? It's so usual to y'all ? :ld:
 

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Y'all americans don't rally against this type of stuff ? No protest, no riot ? It's so usual to y'all ? :ld:


Our entire country is pretty much a police state now. SMH.
 

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Y'all americans don't rally against this type of stuff ? No protest, no riot ? It's so usual to y'all ? :ld:

no because 50% of the people who read this story stop at "and they found baggies on him" they then say, "well if he wasn't doing drugs this never would have happened."

Plus there's no real minority leaders anymore to push for justice on these types of issues.
 

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"@CharlesMBlow: Read tomorrow's column, "The Curious Case of Chavis Carter," tonight and let me know what you think. http://t.co/X3ZgNdBF"

The police chief is not even trying to act like there is a logical explanation. Scratchin' his ass & mumbling "See? >_> Wut had happened wuz... (._. ) "

Cover your pensions & tighten your sphincters. SOMEbody's gonna get fired, but it won't bring CCarter back.
 

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Damn theyre even trying to say his hands were still handcuffed behind his back!!! :whoo: Thats damn near physically impossible. you'd have to be a fukking contortionist.

These motherfukers outta control...
 
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