The mother of the 25-year-old Black man who went missing before parts of his body were discovered in a wooded area in Mississippi says even after a year, she still doesn’t know what happened to her son.
She is calling on the Department of Justice to step in and help find answers to what happened to her son after he was reported missing on Oct. 2, 2022. Tiffany Carter says her last communication with her son Rasheem Carter was when he texted her that he was being harassed by white men in Taylorsville, Mississippi.
“He told me the night before he was in danger,” she said, adding, “he told me it was three trucks of white men trying to harm him.” The men were allegedly hurling racial slurs at him.
According to Tommy Cox, chief of the Laurel Police Department, the young man also told local authorities. He contacted the Taylorsville Police Department on two separate occasions leading up to his disappearance and told them the men had threatened his safety.
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Weeks later, Tiffany Carter was told her son was found dead on Nov. 2, 2022. What made it worse was that his body was found mangled and dismembered.
Smith County Sheriff Joel Houston initially said there was “no reason” to suspect foul play in Carter’s death and “nothing is being swept under the rug,” despite his head being severed and his spinal cord being recovered in a separate area from his head.
Tiffany Carter and her lawyer, Ben Crump, never believed that for a minute, especially after more remains were found and a third set of skeletal remains was discovered in February 2023.
Watch Video of Tiffany Carter Talking About What It Was Like After She Discovered Her Son Was Dead Here.
“His head was severed from his body,” Crump previously said. “His vertebrate, his spinal cord was in another spot they discovered away from his severed head. They have recently found remains…
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