Overview
- Police found an unidentified Black woman hanging behind a vacant house on Road of Remembrance and the Hinds County Coroner’s Office identified her as 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, with authorities issuing an active death-investigation statement on August 4.
- The Jackson Police Department and crime-scene teams say the inquiry is ongoing but have not released how long the body had been at the site or whether foul play is suspected.
- Fortune’s remains were transported to the Mississippi State Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy that officials say will determine her cause and manner of death.
- Family members say they last saw Fortune in July when she visited relatives in Kentucky and have publicly demanded answers while a GoFundMe established for her has raised most of a $3,000 goal.
- The case has drawn heightened attention because of Mississippi’s history of racially charged hangings and recent local deaths that have increased calls from community leaders and civil-rights groups for transparency and possible federal review.