Man pleads not guilty in the hanging death of a Mississippi woman
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man charged with murder in the hanging of a Black woman in Mississippi pleaded not guilty Monday at his first court appearance. The body of Tasia Fortune, 29, was found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned home in the state's capital city, Jackson, on Aug. 3. On Friday, police arrested 51-year-old Jarques Ratliff, who is also Black, on a murder charge after the state medical examiner deemed her death a homicide. During Monday's brief hearing in Municipal Court, a U...
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