{"id":5093,"date":"2026-09-12T20:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/12\/more-arrests-expected-in-tasia-fortune-homicide\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T20:03:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:03:55","slug":"more-arrests-expected-in-tasia-fortune-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/12\/more-arrests-expected-in-tasia-fortune-homicide\/","title":{"rendered":"More Arrests Expected in Tasia Fortune Homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/gJHIM3ULj2o\/maxresdefault.webp)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mississippi woman found hanging from a tree\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gJHIM3ULj2o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> JACKSON, MS \u2013 September 12, 2026 (STL.News) Arrests \u2013 Tasia Fortune \u2013 The investigation into the disturbing death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, a mother of four found hanging from a tree behind a vacant Jackson, Mississippi, home, has shifted dramatically from an unexplained death investigation to an active homicide case involving one murder arrest and the expectation of additional arrests. Jackson police arrested Jarques Ratliff, 51, Friday, Sept. 11, on a murder charge after the Mississippi State Medical Examiner\u2019s Office officially classified Fortune\u2019s death as a homicide Thursday evening. Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said investigators already had<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/more-arrests-expected-in-tasia-fortune-homicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSON, MS \u2013 September 12, 2026 (STL.News) Arrests \u2013 Tasia Fortune \u2013 The investigation into the disturbing death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, a mother of four found hanging from a tree behind a vacant Jackson, Mississippi, home, has shifted dramatically&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5095,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions\/5095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}