Police Release Reenactment Video Demonstrating How Handcuffed Man Supposedly Shot Himself in the Head

21-year-old Chavis Chacobie Carter of Southaven, Mississippi, was riding inside a pickup truck that was pulled over. Officer Ron Marsh reportedly questioned and searched Carter, finding “some marijuana” on his person.

Running his name by dispatch Marsh discovered that Carter was wanted in Mississippi for missing a court date related to previous drug charge. Marsh subsequently handcuffed Carter, searched him again, and then put him in the back of the patrol car.

“As protocol he was handcuffed behind his back and double locked, and searched,” said Sergeant Lyle Waterworth.

After questioning the other two occupants of the pickup, Marsh says he returned to his car to find Carter badly wounded in the backseat with a small caliber handgun by his side.

Teresa, his mother, believes the police are not telling her the whole story. She points to the fact that her son allegedly shot himself in the right temple despite being left handed. She also claims that Carter called his girlfriend after being stopped and told her he would phone her from jail.