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Judge sets $5m bond for third suspect in killing of Black woman hung from tree in Mississippi

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Police said Tasia Fortune, 29, was killed before her body was placed in the tree, and the scene was ‘staged’

A Mississippi judge set a $5m bond on Monday for a third man charged in the death of a Black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in August.

Police disclosed on Friday that Tasia Fortune, 29, was killed before her body was placed in a tree behind an abandoned house in Jackson, Mississippi’s capital city.

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