A Mississippi woman found hanging in a tree will be laid to rest this weekend. Here’s the latest | CNN
Amid the gentle slopes of Greenville, Kentuckyâs historic West End Cemetery, Tasia Fortune was to be buried Saturday, her family hoping sheâs remembered for her intelligence, talent and faith, even as investigators in Mississippi continue to probe how the 29-year-old Black woman came to be found dead hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house in Jackson over two weeks ago. Fortune had lived in Jackson for the past 10 years, according to her obituary, but she came from Kentucky, where a funeral service was held Saturday at Tucker Funeral Home before she was interred at West End, a historically Black cemetery nearby. Jackson Police have categorized Fortuneâs case as âa death pending investigation,â and the Mississippi State Medical Examinerâs Office conducted an autopsy last week, police said. Those results are still pending, and police have not indicated whether they suspect foul play, but the violent history of race relations in the state combined with two other recent hangings in Mississippi have sparked interest and concern in Fortuneâs death. Those hangings were ultimately ruled as suicides, but widespread criticism of the investigation into the death of Nolan
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