A family has been left desperate for answers after their son's remains were found scattered in three separate places.
Shortly before he died Rasheem Carter, 25, called his mum to say there were "three truckloads of white guys trying to kill him", she has said.
His family believes the young dad's death was a "modern-day lynching" and has demanded answers from law enforcement who initially said that no "foul play was involved".
According to a family lawyer Rasheem was “dutifully and gainfully employed," working to support his young child.
The man's mum, Tiffany Carter, reported her son missing in October 2022 shortly after he called to say a group of white men in trucks had been harassing him.
A month later, police found his remains over the space of months in a wooded area near Taylorsville, Mississippi.
They were were scattered over a wide area with his head, body and spine found in different places.
Police previously told Insider animals could have torn his body apart.
Famous civil rights attorney Ben Crump is working with the family, who believe Rasheem was killed in a racially motivated murder.
They say they were told the remains found were confirmed as Rasheem's by email.
In a statement, Mr Crump said: “It is unacceptable that the family had to find out through an email that more of Rasheem’s remains were found.”
Part of his remains were found on November 2 2022, more found an unspecified time later and a third set was found February 23.
In a press conference, Mr Crump said that Rasheem's head was found "severed from his body”.
He continued: “His vertebrate, his spinal cord was in another spot they discovered away from his severed head.”
He also said that someone had tried to use the dead man's credit card after it was determined he was dead.
Mr Crump said: “And we believe that is a big clue.
“Think about it, the person who had his credit card is likely to have encountered him while he was alive, and it shouldn’t have to be this difficult for this broken-hearted mother to get answers.”
According to the Smith County Sheriff’s Department, no cause of Rasheem’s death “could be reasonably determined” by the medical examiner's office.
This was due to the condition of how the remains were found.
His family hace said officials have admitted they believe Rasheem was murdered.
Ms Carter said he was being threatened by people he knew.
“My son told me that it was three truckloads of white guys trying to kill him,” she said.
She also revealed that her son sent her a warning text right before he went disappeared.
Reading from her phone she said: “He said, ‘Me and the owner of this company not seeing eye to eye, mama.
"'If anything happened to me, he’s responsible for it. I’m too smart for it, mama. He got these guys wanting to kill me,’ and that’s what he sent to me.”
On October 2 one day after he last communicated with his family he was captured on a trail camera in the wooded area where he was later found.
In the footage, Rasheem is shirtless. His body appears to be covered in bruises and he is holding what appears to be a large stick.
Despite Ms Carter saying the footage shows her son “running for his life", police say the apparent bruises could just be shadows.
The distraught mum continued: “When I see that picture, I know my son was somewhere struggling, somewhere running for his life... I really believe he was chased there."
Attorney Carlos Moore, who is serving as co-counsel for the family, said the young man was “dutifully and gainfully employed."
Mr Moore said: “And ends up dead, chased by what we believe to be a white supremacist, a lynch mob."
The family have urged the Department of Justice to investigate further and held a protest on Saturday April 29 to keep pressure up.
