Mississippi police said there was “no foul play,” even though his body was found dismembered.
Rasheem Ryelle Carter was a star wide receiver in high school and the captain of his baseball team in Fayette, Mississippi.
“He was very outgoing, he loved sports,” said his mother, Tiffany Carter.
After graduating from Hinds Community College in Utica in 2016 with a degree in welding and cutting technology, he went to work for a railroad company in Brookhaven, Mississippi, which his mother said was “his first real job.” In late September, Carter started a new lumber contracting job in Taylorsville, Mississippi.
It was 1 October when Carter sent an ominous text message to his mother.
Carter, a welder who lived in Fayette, Mississippi, had gotten a short-term job as a contractor around 100 miles away in Taylorsville.
His mother Tiffany Carter said that he was saving money to try to get his seafood restaurant back up and running after it was shuttered during the Covid-19 pandemic.
But Carter reached out to his mother telling her in a detailed text message that he was having issues with his coworkers and feared for his life, Ms Carter said at a press conference on 13 March.
For a month, Carter’s friends and family conducted searches to try to track down the missing Black man.
Then on 2 November – exactly one month after he was last seen alive – his skeletal remains were discovered in a wooded area south of Taylorsville.
In a statement announcing the discovery, the Smith County Sheriff’s Office said that it did not believe there was foul play in his death.
“At this time, we have no reason to believe foul play was involved, but the case is still under investigation,” the department said. “My son told me that it was three truckloads of white guys trying to kill him. And at the time that he told me, as a mother, you know, I had to think fast,” she said.
She said she urged him to go straight to a police station “because I felt in my heart they would serve and protect like they are obligated to do”.
Carter did visit the Taylorsville Police Department on two separate occasions prior to his disappearance, reported ABC News.
lumber contracting job in Taylorsville, Mississippi.
The job helped him support his young daughter. But on Oct. 1 last year, he called and sent his mother a worrying text that expressed fear for his life. “When he sent that to me, I freaked out. And I kept calling him and calling him, until he texted back saying, ‘I’m good, Mama,’” Tiffany Carter told HuffPost.
When they were on the phone, she told HuffPost, Carter said white men in three pickup trucks were following and harassing him.
Later that day, he went to the police station in Taylorsville. What happened there remains a key point of contention between his family and the police. According to Tiffany Carter, Rasheem went to the Taylorsville police twice to report he feared for his life. He also asked for a ride back to the Super 8 motel in Laurel, where he was living, about 22 miles southeast of Taylorsville.
Hours before the 25-year-old’s mysterious disappearance in early October, Carter had gone to the Taylorsville Police Department for help after he expressed to his mother over the phone that he was being followed by white men, his mom, Tiffany Carter, previously said.
While authorities initially said there was no evidence of foul play, Crump said an independent autopsy—and the fact his spinal cord was found in a different location from the rest of his remains—suggests otherwise.
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