Tasia Fortune’s hanging was ‘staged’ after her death in a drug dispute, Mississippi police say
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Investigators believe Tasia Fortune was already dead before the Black woman’s body was hanged from a tree behind an abandoned home in the Mississippi capital this summer, a detective testified Friday. The hanging of Tasia Fortune’s body, which was found on Aug. 3, was “staged,” Jackson police Det. Samuel Dukes testified,...
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