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(TW: violence, descriptions of dismemberment, racism, hate crimes)
Rasheem Carter, a 25-year-old Mississippi black man, called his mother in a panic, stating that a group of white men in three pickup trucks were chasing him as they yelled racial slurs. That was the last time Carter’s family heard from him. He was reported missing the next day, on October 2, 2022.
A month later, authorities found his remains in the woods of Taylorsville, Mississippi. Carter had been decapitated and dismembered, with his spinal cord found detached from the rest of his body. NBC News states, “It's unclear what prompted authorities to search the wooded area or what led them to determine initially that foul play was not suspected. The Smith County Sheriff’s Department did not reply to requests for comment.”
During the press conference (at about 4:30 on the video), Carter’s mother reads aloud a chilling text from her son expressing concern about an employer: “Me and the owner of this company are not seeing eye to eye, Mama. If anything happens to me, he’s responsible for it…he’s got these guys that want to kill me.” She received the message on October 1st, the day before Carter’s disappearance. Despite all of this, the Smith County Police Department released a statement asserting that they “had no reason to suspect foul play.”
Also worth noting, during the most recent protest in Taylorsville for Rasheed Carter, a demonstrator wrote “Rasheem’s life mattered on the street.” After the protest, Gabe Horn, Taylorsville’s chief of police posted a Facebook photo of the message in chalk being power washed off with the caption “Little clean up!!! 👋” (seen in the picture above).
My two cents: this is nothing but a lynching, with the police covering it all up. I’m not a detective, but it doesn’t take a fucking rocket scientist to tell that this was a murder. This is one of the most obvious cover-ups I’ve ever seen. And they wonder why we don’t feel safe with them, why we don’t trust them. White supremacists have been embedded in American law enforcement since the damn slave patrols in the south. Fuck the entire department and everyone involved in this horrific, disgusting act.
Here’s the Carter family’s GoFundMe. Please help if you can.
JUSTICE FOR RASHEEM
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Black man is stalked and harassed. His body is later found decapitated.
Police: Looks like natural causes.
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Rasheem Carter was found decapitated in Miss. woods. His family believes he was murdered.
Rasheem Carter, a 25-year-old Black father who went missing late last year, was found with his head severed from his body and separated from his spinal cord, which was found in a different location near Taylorsville, Miss.
The Smith County Sheriff’s Office originally ruled that there was no foul play in the death of Carter, whose remains were first found in November, but now say they are still investigating along with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
According to Carter’s family, Carter felt he was in danger as he tried to find a way back home to Laurel, Miss. from work in Taylorsville, a majority-white city. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, the family’s attorney, described Carter’s death as a “modern-day lynching.”
“This was not a natural killing. This was not a natural death. This represents a young man who was killed,” Crump said during a press conference in March. Now Crump is calling on the Department of Justice to open a federal investigation into Carter’s death.
What happened to Carter?
The chain of events began on Oct. 1, when Tiffany Carter, Rasheem Carter’s mother, received a call from her son that he felt unsafe. “My son told me it was three truckloads of white guys trying to kill him,” she said during a press conference.
Authorities confirmed that Carter came to the police station asking for help. Taylorsville Police Chief Gabe Horn, who has not responded to requests from Yahoo News, told local news outlet WDAM that the officers couldn’t help Carter or give him a ride home due to staffing issues and liability concerns.
“He told the officer that night that he and his roommates had a verbal disagreement and he felt threatened and that was it,” Horn told WDAM. “[Rasheem] did tell the officer that night that was up here that he had a ride coming and the officer advised him, ‘You’re more than welcome to stay’ [at the police department].”
But according to Carter’s aunt, the police did not allow him to stay there.
“He asked if he could sit around until his ride came. They didn’t know that my sister was on the phone and could hear them: ‘This not no hotel, you can’t stay here,’” Felicia Kaho, Carter’s aunt, told Yahoo News.
Carter’s mother says the police failed her son, “I told him to go to the police station because I felt in my heart they would serve and protect like they are obligated to do,” she said.
The final photo
On the day Carter was reported missing, camera footage showed him shirtless in a wooded area in Taylorsville, holding a large branch.
“Seeing the image of him on someone’s hunting camera is disturbing, because he did not have a shirt on at the time, which indicates that he had been running or [was] overheated,” Mississippi state Rep. Christopher Bell told Yahoo News.
Carter’s mother says she believes the photo proves that her son was in trouble and “running for his life.”
But Smith County Sheriff Joel Houston, told Insider that Carter is the only one seen in the footage that they have reviewed from that day. “It doesn’t show anybody else present,” he said.
Carter’s remains
On Nov. 2, a month after Carter went missing, some of his remains were found in the woods near Taylorsville, where he was last seen.
According to Crump, authorities emailed the family to notify them of the discovery.
“At first, when the first of Rasheem’s remains were discovered with his head decapitated from his body, officials told the family that it was animals that killed Rasheem. Officials later said that they believed he was murdered,” Crump said in April.
The first set of Carter’s remains were found just a few days before his funeral, according to the family. “They only had like 15 bones, they had a skull and like a rib bone and a clavicle and a mandible,” Kaho said.
In February, another set of Carter’s remains were found in Smith County, and last month additional remains were found, according to Crump.
“They have recently found remains that they believe are also Rasheem Carter at another part of where he went missing, and what that tells us is, this was a nefarious act. This was an evil act. Somebody murdered Rasheem Carter. And we cannot let them get away with this,” Crump said.
Last week, Crump and his legal team were notified of a fourth set of remains from a bystander who captured on video police discovering what seems to be human remains.
“There is no excuse for bystanders coming showing video to the family, and officials not having the dignity and respect to notify the family immediately, and say ‘We found more human remains in the vicinity where your son’s head and spinal cord and other bodily remains were found,’” Crump said.
Still, Carter’s family doesn’t have all of his remains. “Where are the rest of his remains? We have [206] bones in our body. And we only got 15 or 20. That’s like a whole body somewhere still out there,” Kaho said.
Family demands federal probe
As the case continues to develop, Carter’s family is calling for a federal investigation. In March, Sheriff Houston told CNN that local authorities are still investigating. “To this date, we do not have evidence of foul play but everything is on the table. Until we turn over every stone, it’s still an open investigation,” he said.
As the family awaits additional answers, You Are the Power, a national nonprofit, announced a $50,000 award for tips that lead to a conviction for Carter’s death.
“Mississippi, all of America is watching to see if you’re going to do right by Rasheem Carter,” Crump said. “His brokenhearted mother has nightmares at night about what her son must have been doing as a result of this lynching in 2022.”
Kaho says she believes that eventually the truth will come to light. “They can stop telling us [no foul play]. We will never settle for that. Never.”
While sometimes small local law enforcement agencies lack resources, Bell says that is not an excuse in the investigation of Carter’s death.
“We also have the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, who also comes in and investigates cases like this, as well as the FBI. So these are agencies that are very capable of doing the investigation and finding out what happened in this case,” he said.
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After Facing Backlash, Mississippi Sheriff Now Says He Hasn't Ruled Out Foul Play In Rasheem Carter’s Death
A Mississippi sheriff said Tuesday that he has not ruled out the possibility of murder in the case of Rasheem Carter, months after initially saying there was “no reason” to suspect foul play in the Black man’s death.
Carter, 25, was found dead last fall after he warned his mother that he was being chased by white men hurling racial slurs.
In an interview with NBC News, Smith County Sheriff Joel Houston defended his early determination, saying no evidence at the time pointed to homicide. But he said his department is still waiting on search warrants to rule more definitively.
For the first time, the sheriff revealed key aspects of the investigation, including the department’s process of ruling out potential suspects.
Carter's loved ones and family attorney were dismayed by that swift decision by the sheriff and urged the Justice Department to take over the investigation as a civil rights case during a news conference Monday.
"This was a nefarious act. This was an evil act,” Crump said. “Somebody murdered Rasheem Carter, and we cannot let them get away with this.”
The sheriff said Tuesday that his department initially said that no foul play was suspected to ease public concern after finding no early evidence that Carter had been chased. -(source: nbc news)
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