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Posted: Jul 30, 2012 5:13 PM EDT Updated: Jul 30, 2012 5:13 PM EDT
JONESBORO, AR (KAIT) ... Chavis Chacobie Carter, 21, of Southaven, Mississippi, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to police records ...
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 ...
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 ...
http://www.kait8.com/story/19149968/jpd-suspect-shot-himself-in-patrol-car-while-handcuffed
Family of man shot in patrol car awaits answers
by The Associated Press
09:06 PM, Saturday, August 11 2012 | 558 views
LITTLE ROCK (AP) Relatives of a young man shot in a patrol car while his hands were cuffed behind his back insisted that he wasn't the type of person to kill himself and questioned how officers searching him failed to find a gun.
Police in Jonesboro, Ark., initially said Chavis Carter, 21, shot himself in the head with a gun he concealed after officers stopped a truck he was riding in. The officers searched Carter twice and found a small bag of marijuana but didn't find a gun until after they saw Carter bleeding in the back of a patrol car.
"If you could find a dime bag of marijuana on a person, you could find a .380," his great-aunt, Cassie Carter, said, referring to the type of handgun found shortly after the shooting ...
http://www.couriernews.com/view/full_story/19779885/article-Family-of-man-shot-in-patrol-car-awaits-answers