By her family’s account, Tasia Fortune was a loving, caring woman who led a troubled life. She ran away from foster care when she was 16, leaving western Kentucky and finding her way to Jackson, Mississippi. There was homelessness and addiction. Relationships that didn’t last produced four children.
Then on an August day, the body of the 29-year-old was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant home on the 500 block of Road of Remembrance. The home is in a mostly Black neighborhood in west Jackson strewn with pockets of tall grass, vacant lots and older homes.
“She had a good heart. She just had a hard life,” her mother, Christy Spivey, told Mississippi Today…