Jonesboro Police Claim Black Man Shot Himself in Head While Handcuffed in Police Car

From [HERE] and [HERE] In Jonesboro, Arkansas, police have launched an investigation into how 21-year-old Chavis Carter was shot in the back of a police car on 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 p.m., reports WREG-TV (video below). Officer Keith Baggett said that Officer Ron Marsh found “some marijuana” and several plastic baggies when he searched Carter.

When they ran his information, they found that Caeter was wanted on a warrant in Mississippi, where he lived. The police handcuffed him, searched him again and put him in the back of the patrol car.

While Officer Baggett searched the vehicle, he recalled hearing “a loud thump with a metallic sound” and then saw Officer Marsh motion to him. According to the police, the thumping noise was Carter shooting himself in the head, even though his hands were still handcuffed behind his back The police report claimed that the gun, used by Carter, was somehow missed in both searches.

Carter’s mother, Teresa, told WREG-TV that the police killed her son: “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. Another odd fact is that Carter was shot in his right temple, even though he was left-handed.