Tasia Fortune: Questions Remain Over Black Woman Found Hanging From Tree
"We are no closer than the day we found out about her murder," Tasia Fortune's mother Christine Spivey wrote on a GoFundMe page.
On August 3, Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman from Mississippi, was discovered hanging from a tree in the lot of an abandoned home. The Jackson Police Department has now confirmed her death as a homicide, pending the results of an autopsy which has yet to be completed. Concerns over her death have been heightened by the state's history of racial violence.
Fortune, a mother of four, had lived in Mississippi for over a decade. Her mother, Christine Spivey, expressed frustration over the lack of communication from law enforcement. Authorities have identified a person of interest in the case, who was arrested for an unrelated gun charge. The incident is the third in less than a year where someone was found dead and hanging from a tree in Mississippi.
Calls have been made for Justice Department involvement in the investigation, following criticism of the handling of cases involving people of color.
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