Sunday, August 9, 2026

JPD Has Person of Interest in Hanging Case

JPD has a person of interest in the hanging death of Tasia Fortune. 

JPD found Fortune's body hanging from a tree behind an abandoned home on Road of Remembrance.  Fortune was 29 years old.   Her death attracted national attention.  

The State Medical Examiner is conducting an autopsy. 


The late Tasia Fortune

JPD arrested Anderson Tuesday and charged him with being a felon in possession of a firearm.  


Law enforcement sources say Fortune was living with Anderson and they quarreled on the Saturday before her body was found.  Detectives said Anderson is a person of interest in the Fortune death investigation.  

Police testimony must have made an impression on Jackson Municipal Court Judge Jeffrey Reynolds because he set Anderson's bond at $250,000.  

Anderson's home is a short distance from where Fortune's body was found.  






33 comments:

Anonymous said...

In before Kenny Stokes writes another letter to the feds: "uh, nevermind y'all. We got it."

Anonymous said...

Nice try Terrence

Anonymous said...

Very sad. A 29-year old shacking up with a 65-year old thug. RIP

Anonymous said...

Very bad tactics JPD. You shouldn't have released this info, but I bet the detectives were pressured by the Dr. Chief.

Anonymous said...

He doesn't fit the narrative

Kingfish said...

Was also said in court.

Anonymous said...

Thanks. To jack up the bail. OK.

Anonymous said...

Yes he does. Look closely at the booking sheet.

Anonymous said...

White people don’t go into that part of jackson. So Sharpton, Crump and Stokes need to shut up

Anonymous said...

Why is it every time a black person is murder by hanging assumed a white person did it? This isn’t the 1960s anymore and MOST murders are committed by people of the same race!

Anonymous said...

If you go on Facebook right now, there are COUNTLESS comments and posts from the black community insinuating that she was “lynched” by a white man because “black people don’t get hung by other blacks” or “black people don’t hang themselves”. The racism is off the charts and each post or comment with have hundreds to thousands of “likes”. It is absolute insanity.

Anonymous said...

Another failed attempt by Kenny to turn this into a racial issue

Anonymous said...

This has to be devastatingly disappointing to Crump and Sharpton - the case appeared to have so much potential for them.

Anonymous said...

@11:30 AM

I think you have “the narrative” (racist white men) confused with “the profile” (angry little manlet with small dick energy)

Anonymous said...

While I feel empathy for this woman, I am sick and tired and of this bullshit that there are whites “hunting and hanging” blacks. It’s beyond ridiculous and people like Bennie, Crump and Al need to put this bullshit to rest.

Anonymous said...

The person of interest is not as dumb as he looks. The best way to throw the law off his trail is to make it appear to have been white perps involved. That results in Al Sharpton and Amos Crump descending on the town. And those two will still show up and insist the 'person of interest' is being railroaded by a white-republican state.

Anonymous said...

This is what you get when people like Jerry Mitchell make a career out of stoking the flames of racial division. It’s dis that people have platforms to spew lies and misinformation. People don’t look for the truth. They look for what benefits their agenda. Disgusting.

Anonymous said...

What is it with scrawny little violent criminals?

Is it a matter of growing up malnourished that affects brain development?

https://people.tamu.edu/~abarr/AB_AS_FoodStamps_Crime_6_18_2019.pdf

https://d-nb.info/137302044X/34

Anonymous said...

65 years old? Thats wild on so many levels.

Anonymous said...

I call bullshit on the 65-year old perp’s jet black locks.

Anonymous said...

We could dig real deep into Mitchell's early life thru his college years and, with the help of a psychologist, figure out what happened along the way.

Anonymous said...

I asked a black acquaintance of mine some years ago now whether it’s commonly believed in the black community that white cops go to work each day looking to bag a (you know the thing). And she informed me that such belief is widely held, or in her opinion it is widely held.

Anonymous said...

It doesn't matter. The "community" is convinced that somehow a group of crackers got that deep into their hood with no one noticing and hung a WOMEN . Lord Jesus.

Anonymous said...

Why on earth would that attractive young lady date such a fugly, useless, criminal bum?
Ladies, we have got to set better standards for ourselves and stop associating with these sub-humans.

Anonymous said...

The rampant speculation that this was a lynching by white racists comes mostly from Black people outside Mississippi who know absolutely nothing about this city or state except what they have heard on social media or hype of Mississippi's civil rights history. Other states have escaped the stigma but
somebody must be their scapegoat and Mississippi fits. They care nothing about present day facts.

Anonymous said...

True. She really went out on a limb being associated with this scum.

Anonymous said...

Ha! Gallows humor.

Anonymous said...

@1:54, it genuinely has become exhausting!!!!!

Anonymous said...

The level of stupidity in this country is very troubling.

Anonymous said...

Today, her mother was on-camera, saying, "...she had her challenges, but... ...she loved her (4) children....". Not sure what those challenges were, but...

Football coaches, megachurch preachers, insurance brokers, and other clean-cut/high-Dollar males, aren't generally looking for challenged women with multiple children. They're looking for women with big-enough incomes to help pay the mortgages on the mcmansions they want to buy in Bridgewater or Reunion.

In a Madea movie, a drop-dead-gorgeous man with a good heart and a good job, will come along, to save a struggling young mother. But life in Jackson works a bit differently. Multi-flawed men like this one, are what's available to challenged young women with multiple kids.

Kingfish said...

Well, it might have been that she was down on her luck and stayed with him. He wanted something more, hence an argument.

Anonymous said...

I agree KF, I did consider that after I posted at 11:08. That could be the case. I just hate when I see females tolerating less than they deserve, but its short sighted of me to not consider such possible scenarios.

Mrs. Eastover said...

So... are there any updates? I have not been paying much attention to the local news lately, but I just saw it reported today that they are looking for answers. Is this man still being investigated, or has he provided an alibi? Are the local channels reporting on this man at all? I may have just missed it......


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