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September 25, 2026 / 3:48 PM EDT / AP
\n\nInvestigators believe Tasia Fortune was already dead before the Black woman's body was hanged from a tree behind an abandoned home in the Mississippi capital this summer, a detective testified Friday.
\n\nThe hanging of Tasia Fortune's body, which was found on Aug. 3, was "staged," Jackson police Det. Samuel Dukes testified, citing the medical examiner's opinion.
\n\nAuthorities haven't disclosed the exact cause of Fortune's death, but they did rule it a homicide and have arrested two men, both of them Black, on murder charges and issued a warrant for the arrest of a third person.
\n\nDukes also testified that the motive for the killing appears to have been a drug dispute. He said interviews with others revealed that Fortune fought hard before she was killed.
\n\nThe case has attracted widespread attention because the scene recalled lynchings in the Southern state, which has a long and troubled history of racial violence.
\n\nAuthorities haven't said why they believe the defendants hanged Fortune's body after she was already dead.
\n\nDukes testified at a hearing for Jarques Ratliff, 51, who was the first person arrested in the case earlier this month. Ratliff, who has pleaded…
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