Tasia Fortune, 29, was allegedly murdered during a drug-related conflict, after which her body was hung in a tree behind a vacant residence in Mississippi’s capital city during the summer months, according to testimony provided by Jackson police Detective Samuel Dukes on Friday.
Tasia Fortune’s hanging was ‘staged’: Police
Detective Dukes further stated that Fortune had engaged in a vigorous struggle with her assailants before her death, and he referenced the medical examiner’s assessment in characterizing the hanging as a deliberately contrived scene, as per AP. Authorities have refrained from disclosing the precise cause of death or explaining their rationale for suspecting the hanging may have been fabricated. Christy Spivey further recounted that law enforcement officials informed her the incident was connected to drugs. “I know she did.
I know my daughter,” Spivey told BBC, adding that her daughter had left behind four young children, with ages of seven, five, four, and one. She elaborated on her understanding that her daughter had struggled to survive until the final moment while addressing members of the press outside the Jackson Police Department on Friday.
