On Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, Hinds County Coroner’s Office identified 29-year-old Tasia Fortune as the woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a vacant home in Jackson, Miss., on Monday, Aug. 3, 2026.
JACKSON, Miss. — The Hinds County Coroner’s Office on Thursday identified the woman found hanging from a tree behind a vacant home in west Jackson as Tasia Fortune, 29. Days after her body was discovered, the most basic questions about her death remain unanswered — and the Jackson Police Department is declining to release its incident report.
Officers located the body of a then-unidentified Black w…