Tasia Fortune hanging update

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

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

Jackson police investigation

Police in Jackson told ABC News this is an active death investigation.

Drug dispute death

Fortune was killed in a disagreement about drugs before her body was hung in a tree.

Staged hanging

Jackson police detective Samuel Dukes said the hanging was 'staged' after medical examiner's opinion.

Racial violence context

Fortune was Black, and her Aug 3 hanging discovery stoked fear due to Southern state lynching history.

Arrests and charges

Two Black men arrested on murder charges: 45-year-old man turned himself in Friday, 51-year-old Ratliff pleaded not guilty.