New details in the alleged suicide of 21-year-old Chavis Carter have emerged, perhaps giving more air to the possibility that the young Arkansas man indeed took his own life in the back of a police patrol car. Carter’s girlfriend went on the record with Jonesboro police, telling them that Carter had called her from the [...]
Police Re-Enact How Chavis Carter Could Have Shot Himself
August 14, 2012 | Posted by
In an attempt to support the officers’ claim that Chavis Carter shot himself in the head – while his wrists were cuffed behind his back as he sat in the rear of a cramped police car – Jonesboro, Arkansas police release a re-enactment video showing an unidentifiable office doing what police claim Carter did. Further, [...]
FBI Investigates Questionable ‘Suicide’ of Black Man in Arkansas
August 3, 2012 | Posted by
After police released a report saying that 21-year-old Jonesboro, Arkansas, resident Chavis Carter had shot himself in the head while handcuffed in the back of a police car, the story sounded so outlandish for even federal officials to believe—so the FBI has announced that it will conduct its own investigation of the incident. The police [...]
