(Jonesboro, AR) There are newly released pictures and video from the Jonesboro, Arkansas shooting where a man handcuffed in the back of a police car was shot.
Jonesboro police say 21-year old Chavis Carter committed suicide.
An autopsy agreed and also revealed he had drugs in his system the night of the shooting.
However, The young man’s family believes someone else shot him.
They want more investigating.
Under public scrutiny since the shooting, Jonesboro police are releasing new evidence to back up their claim Carter committed suicide and to prove he was around drugs and guns.
The faces of two children are blocked out in a cell phone video clip but detectives say the two are clearly underage, and the person who video-taped it was Carter.
It was found on his cell phone after the shooting.
Police also released this audio interview with Brandon Baker.
Baker is currently in jail for burglary in Paragould, AR. He admitted the gun Carter killed himself with, was the type he was trying to buy from Carter that same night.
“It’s a .25 and another .380 that’s been going around. It’s not like the gun that’s being sold and the last thing he had was a .380,” Baker told Jonesboro police.
Pictures released by investigators show blood spatter on the back of Carter’s right hand.
Officers say this shows it was in close proximity to the contact wound.
The same blood spatter is seen on the gun.
There was also high velocity blood spatter present on the rear passenger door of the patrol car.
However, the one thing still puzzling a former Shelby County medical examiner is why there wasn’t a test for gun powder residue.
Forensic Pathologist Dr. O.C. Smith says he would have conducted a gunshot residue test.
The Arkansas Crime Lab did not.
They say they don’t do these tests when suicides are involved.
Smith says it doesn’t prove who fired the gun but could have been an important piece of evidence, “We’re going to gunshot residue everything. The lab may not except it but you got one chance in forensics to do it right.”