Posted on 08/20/2012 10:25:50 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- An autopsy report released Monday lists the death of a man shot in the head while his hands were cuffed behind him in an Arkansas patrol car as a suicide.
The state crime lab report, signed by three medical examiners, said the muzzle of a gun was placed against the right side of 21-year-old Chavis Carter's head when it was fired.
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Two searches. First cursory search did not find weapon. Put him in the cruiser— he stashes the pistol. Second more thorough search— for sure not on him now. Cuff him put him back in... he picks up off floor and bends down and kaboom. It could (and apparently did) happen. All this with outstanding drug warrant known to the officers.. at least if any part of the article is correct.
What a waste, who were those guys in the truck hurting?
In Charlotte, a man named Calvin Christmas was cuffed and put in the back seat of a patrol car. He had been frisked by the policeman but ended up shooting the policeman in the back of the head with a gun he had well hidden and killed him. I remember this as the retrial happened when I first moved there. Everyone voted for the death penalty.
Except for the one black woman.
So he got life in prison instead. The jury sent flowers to the family as they were all so upset.
http://cmpd.police-memorial.com/lyles.htm
Mark
You got to love the hitters who were trained across the river in DC...
Are there THREE Fahmy Malak medical examiners now in Arkansas?
***Also, he fired the gun three times. Worst suicide case in memory.***
I remember a witness against Billy Sol Estes who shot himself several times in the stomach with a .22 rifle. Suicide they said.
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