Key Facts

• Tasia Fortune’s body was found hanging from a tree in Jackson, Mississippi, in August.
• Police believe she was killed first, and then her body was hung to look like a lynching.
• Detective Samuel Dukes said the hanging was connected to a drug dispute.
• The state medical examiner provided evidence that the death was staged.
• Two men have been charged with murder in this case.
• A third suspect is still being sought by police.
• The case attracted national attention because it resembled a lynching, a form of racial violence in Mississippi history.
• Authorities say this was not a hate crime related to race.