What we know about the death of Tasia Fortune in Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The hanging death of Tasia Fortune, whose body was found outside an abandoned house, has shaken her family and community in Mississippi, where two other people have…
The hanging death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman, in an abandoned house in Jackson, Mississippi, has left her family and community in shock. Police have not yet determined if her death was suspicious, but they are actively investigating the circumstances surrounding her passing. Fortune, a mother of four who had lived in Mississippi for over a decade, was last seen on July 26 when she traveled to Kentucky for a family reunion.
Her mother, Christy Spivey, maintains that her daughter was not behaving out of the ordinary and did not take her own life. A week after her body was discovered, a makeshift memorial remains at the scene, honoring the life of a loving mother who, her family insists, did not take her own life.
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