Shooting death of handcuffed man in patrol car ruled a suicide

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Shooting death of handcuffed man in patrol car ruled a suicide

By Louis Casiano, NBC News

A man's death from a gunshot wound to the head while his hands were handcuffed behind him in an Arkansas police patrol car has been ruled a suicide, The Associated Press reported on Monday.

The AP said the state crime lab report said 21-year-old Chavis Carter shot himself in the right temple of his head with a gun he had hidden. The report was based on autopsy findings and an investigation by the Jonesboro, Ark., Police Department.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/20/13377849-shooting-death-of-handcuffed-man-in-patrol-car-ruled-a-suicide?lite

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After shooting himself in the head, he then stabbed himself in the back 4 times and jumped off a bridge, just to make sure the job was done.

There's more to this one than is being published.

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In my opinion, something is not right.

Here is another article

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/21/despite-suicide-ruling-questions-linger-about-how-handcuffed-arkansas-man-shot/

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ok conspiracy commandos let's hear it, what do you think the police did wrong this time ?

Unless you have extensive experience searching people in an arrest situation and finding and not finding hidden contraband on them then you would not be able to accurately say that something " isn't right."

People flip their cuffs all the time, cops miss hidden contraband on people all the time. the weapon in this case was a .380, anyone who knows guns knows how small a .380 is and how easy it is to conceal.

An a** crack and the crotch area can conceal almost anything, most certainly a .380

This is nowhere near the first time a person has committed suicide with a handgun that was missed during a search while in custody.

We have all seen the video of the man in San Bernadino California that made it into the interrogation room of the sheriff's office with a .45 in his waist and shot himself in the head. The guy in CA wasn't handcuffed but this story shows the mindet of people in custody.

In Jauary in Georgia a prisoner snuck a gun into the jail in his rectum and in May a prisoner that had been searched multiple times in Dallas was found to have a handgun in his crotch only after he was transferred to another facitlity. Just last week, a guy got a gun into a jail in nashville and it fell to the floor out of his pants in front of the judge that was booking him.

A further look into this case shows that there was a text on the perps who asking a guy to bring him a gun. The text was from earlier inthe day that he dealt with the cops. The perp called his girlfriend from the back of the radio car and said he had a gun and that he was scared. There were multiple civilian witnesses that said that the doors and windows of the RMP were all closed and that nobody was around it ( cops of civilians) when they heard the shot ring out and saw the cops go over to the car.

Sorry to burst the conspiracy bubble but there really is nothing here other than a drug dealer who was armed with a gun that wasn't smart enough to admit it to the cops when he was caught and decided to take the easy way out.

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In my opinion, something is not right.

Here is another article

http://www.foxnews.c...ansas-man-shot/

OK, we're listening. In your (law enforcement-experienced) opinion, what exactly "is not right"?

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For those of you who still think things like this are " impossible " and just " Can't happen" , I have news for you, IT JUST DID only this time with deadly results for the troopers.

Perp was searched and cuffed and put in back of RMP. Perp either flips or gets out of cuffs, reaches handgun that he has concealed on him and shoots both troopers from the back seat of the RMP killing one and seriously wounding the other.

http://www.officer.com/news/10771121/two-wva-troopers-shot-one-dead-deputy-and-civilian-also-hit

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"Unless you have extensive experience searching people in an arrest situation and finding and not finding hidden contraband on them then you would not be able to accurately say that something " isn't right."

As one who has extensive experience searching prisoners I have to agree with Crime Cop and my experience was limited to post arrest when situations were calm ( in most cases). These perps are crafty and know how to hide things. They use every inch/crack of thier bodies to conceal stuff. At times things can get by and unfortunately when it does it could be deadly. And a .380 automatic is very small and easy to conceal.