Mississippi Hanging Was Staged After Drug Dispute, Investigators Say
Tasia Fortune, 29, was found dead on Aug. 3, her body hanging from a tree branch behind an abandoned property in Jackson, Miss.
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Headlines vary in their focus on the victim's name, the 'staged' aspect of the hanging, and the attribution of the drug dispute, with one source using 'killing' instead of 'hanging
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Different Spin. The left frames it as "Mississippi Hanging Was Staged After Drug Dispute, Investigators Say". The right frames it as "Case of Hanging Death of Black Woman in Mississippi Takes Another Twist as Democrats Soun...".
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Sep 25, 9:40 PM: The Gateway Pundit joined the source map.
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Tasia Fortune, 29, was found dead on Aug. 3, her body hanging from a tree branch behind an abandoned property in Jackson, Miss.
Authorities haven't disclosed the exact cause of Fortune's death, but they did rule it a homicide and have arrested two men.
Tasia Fortune was apparently killed in a drug dispute before her body was hung in a tree in a “staged” lynching behind an abandoned home in the Mississippi capital this summer, a detective...
During a preliminary hearing, a Jackson police detective testified that Tasia Fortune, 29, was hung from a tree in west Jackson after she was killed because of a dispute over drugs.
The death of Tasia Fortune, the black woman found hanging from a tree, just took another interesting turn.