More than a month after Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman, was found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house in Jackson, Mississippi, police announced a murder charge against 51-year-old Jarques Ratliff.
Jackson police arrested a 51-year-old man on a murder charge in the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black mother of four found hanging from a tree in August, a case that drew global attention and sharp political commentary. Jarques Ratliff, a Black Jackson resident with a prior personal connection to Fortune, was taken into […] The post Man arrested in homicide of Tasia Fortune, Black mother of four found hanging from tree in Jackson, Mississippi appeared first on American Almanac .
Jackson police arrested a 51-year-old man on a murder charge in the death of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black mother of four found hanging from a tree in August, a case that drew global attention and sharp political commentary. Jarques Ratliff, a Black Jackson resident with a prior personal connection to Fortune, was taken into custody Friday afternoon after the Mississippi State Medical Examiner's Office classified Fortune's death as a homicide late Thursday. ABC News reported that Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney announced the arrest during a press briefing, saying investigators "moved quickly" once the medical examiner's ruling came through. Fortune's body was discovered on August 3 in the backyard of a vacant property on Road…Open
An arrest has been made in the death of a woman found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. Tasia Fortune, a mother of four, was found dead, according to the Jackson Police Department.
Tasia Fortune, a mother of four, was found dead "in a hanging position" on a tree behind a vacant home in Jackson on Aug. 3, police said.
“We owe it to Ms. Fortune, to her family and to the integrity of this investigation to let the evidence guide us,” Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said.
“Police investigating after a Black woman was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi,” an X post from The Lead on CNN read, accompanied by a reporter hit that aired Wednesday from Omar Jimenez on the death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune. Fortune was found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned house earlier this month. […]
AI:CNN is once again attempting to manufacture a racial outrage narrative to distract from their own crumbling credibility and fueling division across the country. The network is peddling a blatant race hoax by framing the tragic death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune—who was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi—as a targeted hate crime before investigations have even reached any semblance of a conclusion. This follows a predictable pattern for these leftist media operatives: they take every local tragedy, whether it's a suspicious death or a violent crime, and immediately weaponize it to fit their radical social justice agenda. Instead of waiting for the facts to emerge through proper legal channels, CNN is running ahead of the evidence…Open
The mother of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in Jackson, Mississippi, said her daughter "did not do this to herself."
Tasia Fortune’s aunt described her niece as a “strong-minded, big-hearted, vibrant young woman.”