Crime
Ben Crump questions foul play ban claims after black Mississippi man’s severed head and spinal cord found
Family Rasheem Carter on the lookout for answers.
NBC News reported Carter was reported missing on October 2 by his mother, Tiffany Carter who said her son called her in a panic, saying he was being chased by three white men’s trucks and shouting racial slurs. A month later, his stays were found in a wooded area near Taylorsville, Michigan. However, the Smith County Sheriff’s Office released a press release saying it had “no reason to believe foul play occurred.”
Family Lawyer Carlos Moore and Civil Rights Lawyer Ben Crumpcalled a press conference on Monday after obtaining further information from the 25-year-old’s autopsy.
According to by WAPT 16, Carter’s family received his head and spinal cord in a box from the state crime lab. He was also missing his top and bottom front teeth. Crump said Rasheem Carter’s head was severed from his body. It calls on the Department of Justice to further investigate this matter. “It was a wicked act. It was a bad act,” Crump said.
“Someone murdered Rasheem Carter and we can’t let him get away with it.”
His mother said she spoke to her son and texted him the last day he was seen alive. When he told her what was happening, she instructed him to go to the police, but nothing got here of it. “They didn’t help him. He asked for help, but they didn’t help him,” a grieving mother he said. “He did well to ask, but they did not help him.”
Although the police stated that no crime had occurred, this was true unclear prompting authorities to look the wooded area. They also tell a unique story about what happened before Carter went missing. Laurel Police Department Chief Tommy Cox said Carter never contacted his department for help. In fact, the Laurel Police Department turned the investigation over to Smith County after they determined it was beyond their jurisdiction.
Carter, father of a 7-year-old daughter, he worked freelance work to get monetary savings to reopen a seafood restaurant that closed through the pandemic. At work, Carter had an argument with one co-worker and ran away. The mother said she wasn’t going to present up on the lookout for answers. “They thought it would be a child that no one cared about,” she added he said. “They are clearly wrong because he was somebody.”