The family of a Black Mississippi man found dead after asking the local police for help wants the federal government to investigate his death.
Rasheem Carter was found dead in Taylorsville, Mississippi, one month after he went to the Taylorsville Police Department asking for help from authorities. Now the local sheriff is saying that he hasn’t ruled out the possibility of murder — this after saying initially that authorities didn’t have reason to suspect foul play, according to NBC News.
Carter reportedly told police on Oct. 1, 2022, that he’d been chased by a group of white men in trucks. The 25-year-old previously had texted his mother that “three truckloads of white guys” were trying to kill him and shouting racial slurs, and his mother advised him to go to the police.
His body reportedly was found in skeleton form one month later on Nov. 2 in a wooded area with a severed head.
The family held a press conference on March 13 in Jackson, Mississippi. One of their attorneys, Ben Crump, described the details of the state of the Fayette, Mississippi resident’s remains based on the family’s independent autopsy.
“This is not a natural death. This represents a young man who was killed,” said Crump. “His head was severed from his body. His vertebrate, his spinal cord, was in another spot they discovered away from his severed head. They have recently found remains that they believe are also Rasheem Carter at another part of where he went missing. What that tells us is this was a nefarious act, an evil act. Someone murdered Rasheem Carter, and we cannot let them get away with this.”
Crump also added that the family was given Carter’s head and spinal column in a box from the State Crime Lab.
Carter’s mother, Tiffany Carter, said that her son texted her on Oct. 2, the day he disappeared. He was last seen outside a Super 8 Hotel in Laurel, Mississippi, where he was working a 10-day stretch for Georgia Pacific Wood…
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