Judge sets $5m bond for third suspect in killing of Black woman hung from tree in Mississippi

Police said Tasia Fortune, 29, was killed before her body was placed in the tree, and the scene was ‘staged’ A Mississippi judge set a $5m bond on Monday for a third man charged in the death of a Black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in August. Police disclosed on Friday that Tasia Fortune, 29, was killed before her body was placed in a tree behind an abandoned house in Jackson, Mississippi’s capital city. Guardian staff contributed reporting Continue reading...

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Judge sets $5m bond for third suspect in killing of Black woman hung from tree in Mississippi

Police said Tasia Fortune, 29, was killed before her body was placed in the tree, and the scene was ‘staged’

A Mississippi judge set a $5m bond on Monday for a third man charged in the death of a Black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in August.

Police disclosed on Friday that Tasia Fortune, 29, was killed before her body was placed in a tree behind an abandoned house in Jackson, Mississippi’s capital city.

Guardian staff contributed reporting

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