More than one month after Tasia Fortune was found in a tree behind an abandoned home in Mississippi, detectives testified that she was already dead before she was hanged.
Detective Samuel Dukes of the Jackson Police Department testified in court on Friday, September 25, that he believes Fortune’s hanging was “staged” while citing the medical examiner’s opinion, according to the Associated Press.
Authorities have not shared how they think Fortune, 29, actually died, but they did rule her death on August 3 a homicide. Dukes said on Friday that police concluded Fortune, a Black woman, had fought hard before she was killed based on interviews.
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