Tasia Fortune's hanging was 'staged' after her death in a drug dispute, Mississippi police say

Police say Tasia Fortune was killed in a drug dispute and her hanging was staged to look like a lynching in Jackson, Mississippi.
A police detective says Tasia Fortune was apparently killed in a drug dispute before her body was hung in a tree in a “staged” lynching behind an abandoned home in the Mississippi capital this summer.
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