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Judge sets $5M bond for third man charged in death of Black woman whose body was later hung in tree
Police said the scene was staged and more arrests are likely as officials seek a federal civil rights review.
- On Monday, a Mississippi judge set a $5 million bond for Eric Clark, the third man charged in the death of Tasia Fortune, whose body was found hanging from a tree in Jackson in August.
- Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney disclosed Friday that Fortune was killed in a drug dispute, with props left at the scene 'as part of the staging' to mimic a lynching.
- The discovery of the hanging body stoked fear recalling historical racial violence in the South. Judge Jeffery Reynolds said Monday, 'People justifiably didn't know if we had a killer on the loose,' calling it a 'heinous' act.
- Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old Black college student, disappeared July 4 from the Gulf Coast, causing speculation his death could have been racially motivated and leading to conflation with Fortune's case.
- While a Mississippi grand jury found no evidence of criminal conduct in Wells' death, Brackney stated more arrests are likely in the Fortune investigation; Wells' family continues working to keep their case open.
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Judge sets $5-million bond for third man charged in death of Black woman whose body was later hung in tree
Police disclosed Friday that Tasia Fortune, 29, was killed in a drug dispute before her body was placed in a tree behind an abandoned house in Jackson, Miss.
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A Mississippi judge set a $5 million bond for a third man charged in the death of a Black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in August.
·New York, United States
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