Police claim handcuffed prisoner, in back seat of squad car, shoots self in head

[thernbroom]

The investigation continues into how a young black man managed to shoot himself in the head while his hands were cuffed behind his back after being searched twice and placed in the back seat of a Jonesboro, Ark., police car.

That's what happened, according to the report filed by two Jonesboro police officers.

The KAIT-TV website tells us:

“Chavis Chacobie Carter, 21, of Southaven, Mississippi, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to police records.

Honest. It's in the report. "Self-inflicted."

According to the police report, Carter was a passenger in a pickup truck that was stopped just before 10 o’clock Saturday night on Haltom Street in Jonesboro.

Officer Keith Baggett said while he searched the vehicle, Officer Ron Marsh questioned and searched Carter. He reportedly found “some marijuana” and several new plastic baggies on Carter. No mention of what "some marijuana" means in terms of weight, volume or street value.

According to the report, Officer Marsh ran Carter’s information through dispatch and learned that he was wanted on a warrant out of DeSoto County, Mississippi.

After confirming the warrant, Officer Baggett said Officer Marsh ordered Carter to exit the patrol unit, placed him into handcuffs, searched him a second time then placed him into the back seat of the patrol unit.

While he and Officer Marsh walked back to his patrol unit, Officer Baggett said a car passed and then he heard “a loud thump with a metallic sound.” At the time he believed the vehicle had run over a piece of metal on the road.

That's just what it sounded like, he said.

Officer Bagget went back to his car to transfer the prisoner. Officer Marsh went back and talked to the other two people who were in the truck with Carter, turned them loose, got back in his car and prepared to leave. That's when he heard someone pounding on his trunk, he said.

It was Officer Bagget. He said that the prisoner had shot himself in the head.

They both went to Officer Bagget's squad car, opened the back passenger side door and found Carter in a “sitting position slumped forward with his head in his lap.” Officer Marsh said there was a large amount of blood on Carter’s shirt, pants, seat and floor. He also said Carter’s hands were still cuffed behind his back. A small caliber handgun was reportedly found beside him.

The left-handed suspect had somehow managed to shoot himself in the right temple with his hands cuffed behind him.

Well, doggone it. How in the heck did he get a gun in the car after being searched twice, get out of those cuffs, then shoot himself in the head, get the cuffs back on before the officers could see what happened?

Well, it was night time.

Carter died at a nearby hospital. Officers Baggett and Marsh are on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation. And Carter's mother thinks the police killed her son.

“I think they killed him, my son wasn’t suicidal”, said Teresa Carter.

She says her son called his girlfriend while pulled over, to say he’d 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 doesn’t add up.

Police say they’re still investigating and haven’t ruled out the possibility that someone else may have shot Chavis Carter.

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[Domingo Halliburton]

the south

 

[Shecky Shabazz]

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[Jello Biafra]

So he had been searched , handcuffed behind his back and placed in the squad car yet they expect anyone to believe that he had a hidden gun on his person and was able to fish it out from wherever he hid it just so he could shoot himself in the head?
Get the fukk out of here.

 

[Kuro]

i dont see how anyone could believe this man shot himself in the head after having his hands cuffed behind him while sitting in the back seat of a squad car with a gun the police couldnt find after searching him twice...

 

[daze23]

Police release more information in Chavis Carter Death - KAIT-Jonesboro, AR-News, weather, sports, classifieds

Police release more information in Chavis Carter Death

Jonesboro Police have released more information in the death of Chavis Chacobie Carter who died in police custody.

Carter, 21, of Southaven, Mississippi, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head while handcuffed in a patrol car, according to police records. The officers who had Carter detained are currently on administrative leave.

The newest information released has revealed that a small .380 caliber cobra semi-auto firearm was discovered along with an expended case and a projectile, which was recovered in the back of the vehicle. Investigators said the firearm found in the patrol car had previously been reported stolen by a Jonesboro resident .

These pieces of evidence were packaged and sent to the Arkansas State Crime Lab along with Carter's body after he died at nearby hospital a short time after the shooting.

A number of witnesses were interviewed, and police said their statements were consistent with the officers' accounts of what happened and with the dash cam video from both cruisers. Officers said the statements and the audio/video evidence from the dash cams account for the policemen's actions from the beginning of the stop until the arrival of the ambulance.

The report also said the evidence indicates that neither officer removed his weapon, fired a shot or was in a position to enter the vehicle where Carter was detained in a manner that would allow for them to injure Carter.

Police are continuing the search for witnesses and anticipation further investigation.

Furthermore, the police department told Region 8 News that the windows in the patrol unit where Carter was detained were up and intact, indicating no possibility of a bullet penetrating from the outside of the patrol unit.

How Carter managed to shoot himself remains a mystery, but JPD has been in contact with the FBI who have agreed to monitor the case, and Jonesboro Police are sharing all investigative material with them. Autopsy and crime lab results are anticipated for further review.

Police are trying to reconstruct the incident to further guide the investigation.

The Jonesboro Police Department has also inspected Carter's cell phone. The inspection, police said, revealed that Carter may have been in possession of the gun while engaged in some sort of drug related activity prior to his encounter with the police.

According to the original police report, Carter was a passenger in a pickup truck that was stopped just before 10 o'clock Saturday night on Haltom Street.

Officer Keith Baggett said while he searched the vehicle, Officer Ron Marsh questioned and searched Carter. He reportedly found "some marijuana" and several new plastic baggies on Carter.

According to the report, Officer Marsh ran Carter's information through dispatch and learned that he was wanted on a warrant out of DeSoto County, Mississippi.

After confirming the warrant, Baggett said Marsh had Carter "exit the patrol unit, placed him into handcuffs, searched him a second time then placed him into the back seat of the patrol unit."

While he and Officer Marsh walked back to his patrol unit, Officer Baggett said a car passed and then he heard "a loud thump with a metallic sound." At the time he believed the vehicle had run over a piece of metal on the road.

After questioning and releasing the other two men, Officer Marsh reportedly returned to his unit while Officer Baggett said he prepared to leave the scene. He then heard "several thumps" on his trunk and saw Officer Marsh motioning for him.

Officer Marsh reportedly said Carter had shot himself.

The two officers opened the rear passenger side door and found Carter in a "sitting position slumped forward with his head in his lap." Officer Marsh said there was a large amount of blood on Carter's shirt, pants, seat and floor. He also said Carter's hands were still cuffed behind his back. A small caliber handgun was reportedly found beside him.

Seeing that Carter was still breathing, Officer Marsh radioed for an ambulance and a supervisor. Carter was taken to St. Bernards Regional Medical Center where he later died of his injury.

Officers Baggett and Marsh are on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

Neighbors living near the area where Carter was stopped are left with many questions unanswered regarding this strange incident.

Several residents spoke off-camera to Region 8 News about what they saw or heard that night.

One woman said she saw the white truck that Carter was riding in parked near home. She says the truck had turned off its lights, but she thought nothing was strange until several police cars arrived.

She and other neighbors say they did not hear the gunshot go off that killed Carter. They say they would eventually like to hear a full, thorough explanation about what happened from police.

Members of the community and pastors representing many of the African-American churches in Jonesboro is organizing a vigil Monday night. It'll be at 7:30 p.m. on First Baptist Church parking lot located on Kitchen Street.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Dash Cam video? Electrical failure

How did he shoot himself in the head? I mean guns are tiny, officers could have misplaced it. We should be glad that none of these upstanding civil servants were harmed by the perp. They have families at home.

Nothing more to see here...move along now

 

[daze23]

Dash Cam video? Electrical failure

huh?

 

[88m3]

War on Drugs needs to end

 

[ExodusNirvana]

huh?

Misread...I coulda sworn they said the dash cam vid was missing or something

Still very interesting that he was handcuffed and shot himself in the head

 

[daze23]

Misread...I coulda sworn they said the dash cam vid was missing or something

Still very interesting that he was handcuffed and shot himself in the head

I agree it's weird. but if that's what the evidence points to

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

Police killing civilians is the most overlooked crime in America. I heard so many fukked up stories.

 

[Sexy Syl V]

We need to see those dash cam videos