{"id":362184,"date":"2026-09-23T10:54:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/mississippi-police-make-2nd-arrest-in-death-of-black-woman-found-hanging-from-tree-seek-3rd-suspect"},"modified":"2026-09-23T10:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:54:19","slug":"mississippi-police-make-2nd-arrest-in-death-of-black-woman-found-hanging-from-tree-seek-3rd-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/mississippi-police-make-2nd-arrest-in-death-of-black-woman-found-hanging-from-tree-seek-3rd-suspect","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi police make 2nd arrest in dying of Black girl discovered hanging from tree, search third suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">JACKSON, Miss. &#8212; <\/span>Police in Mississippi have arrested a second man in the death of a Black woman found hanging from a tree and have issued an arrest warrant for a third suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Jackson police said late Tuesday that they arrested 25-year-old Earnest Lloyd Jr. in the death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, whose body was found hanging behind an abandoned home in the city on Aug. 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Like Fortune and the first man arrested, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tasia-fortune-mississippi-hanging-arrest-4aa7ada8208008fea580369ede0eef37\">51-year-old Jarques Ratliff<\/a>, Lloyd is Black.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ratliff was arrested in September on murder charges and has pleaded not guilty and remains jailed without bond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said in a statement that they issued an arrest warrant for a third suspect, but gave no details about that person\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">After Ratliff&#8217;s arrest, Jackson&#8217;s police chief, RaShall Brackney, said Ratliff had an \u201cassociation\u201d with Fortune, but she didn&#8217;t elaborate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Although police haven&#8217;t suggested a possible motive for the killing or said whether they think race played a role, the case has attracted widespread attention because the manner of death <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lifestyle-travel-united-states-race-and-ethnicity-mississippi-a1e831db43736e0268e5049de6c9fe30\">recalled lynchings<\/a> in the Southern state. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A Kentucky native, Fortune had four children and had been living in Jackson for about a decade, relatives said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Her mother, Christy Spivey, said Fortune had struggled with homelessness in recent years, and she wasn\u2019t sure where her daughter was living at the time of her death. She said her daughter had talked recently about starting a cleaning business and was trying to get her life in order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/mississippi-police-make-2nd-arrest-death-black-woman-136686415\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSON, Miss. &#8212; Police in Mississippi have arrested a second man in the death of a Black woman found hanging from a tree and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":362187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[261,30519,8734,36049,37691,37693,5010,37692,8556,36050,36046],"class_list":["post-362184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chief","tag-christy-spivey","tag-jackson","tag-jackson-police","tag-jacksons-police","tag-jarques-ratliff","tag-kentucky","tag-lloyd-jr","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-police","tag-rashall-brackney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362186,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362184\/revisions\/362186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}