2026-09-23T14:12:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
密西西比州警方已就一名被发现吊在树上的黑人女性之死逮捕第二名男子，并对第三名嫌疑人发出逮捕令。
杰克逊警方于周二晚间宣布，他们逮捕了25岁的小欧内斯特·劳埃德，涉案死者为29岁的塔西亚·福琼。8月3日，福琼的尸体在该市一处废弃住宅后方被发现吊在树上。
和福琼以及第一名被捕男子——51岁的雅克·拉特利夫一样，劳埃德也是黑人。他于周三在杰克逊出席了一场简短的听证会。
出席听证会的福琼的母亲克里斯蒂·斯派夫赛后表示，看到案件有人被捕，她欣喜若狂。她说自己和女儿的几位朋友都不认识劳埃德，并提醒大家，在被证明有罪之前，所有人都是无辜的。
“受此事影响的不止我一家，”斯派夫在谈及被告家属时说道，“我也同情他们。唯一的区别是，我的女儿再也回不来了。”
克里斯蒂·斯派夫于2026年9月8日在肯塔基州马里恩与已故女儿塔西亚·福琼的肖像合影。美联社照片/乔治·沃克·四世
“我永远无法真正获得平静，”她说道。
拉特利夫于9月因谋杀罪被捕。他拒不认罪，目前仍被关押且不得保释。
拉特利夫被捕后，杰克逊警察局局长拉谢尔·布雷克尼表示，拉特利夫与福琼存在“关联”，但并未详述。
警方在一份声明中称，他们已对第三名嫌疑人发出逮捕令，但未透露该嫌疑人的身份或其与福琼之死的涉嫌关联。他们还表示，预计将发出更多逮捕令。拉特利夫被捕后，布雷克尼称警方已在调查中约谈了十余人并收集了法医证据。
尽管警方尚未提及这起谋杀案的可能动机，也未表明他们是否认为种族因素发挥了作用，但这起案件因其死亡方式让人联想到美国南方各州的私刑，引发了广泛关注。福琼的死亡事件发生一年前，密西西比州克利夫兰市三角洲州立大学的21岁黑人学生特雷·里德和维克斯堡市一名无家可归的白人男子科里·祖卡蒂斯均被发现上吊身亡。两起死亡均被裁定为自杀，但里德的家人和律师呼吁进行独立尸检。
据亲属介绍，福琼是肯塔基州本地人，育有四名子女，已在杰克逊生活了约十年。斯派夫于本月早些时候表示，福琼的亲友“仍然没有得到太多答案”。
斯派夫此前曾表示，她的女儿近年来一直无家可归，她不确定女儿去世时的居住地点。她说，女儿生前曾谈论过要开一家清洁公司，并努力让自己的生活步入正轨。
Police make 2nd arrest in death of Tasia Fortune, Mississippi woman found hanging from tree
2026-09-23T14:12:00-0400 / CBS/AP
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.
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.
Like Fortune and the first man arrested, 51-year-old Jarques Ratliff, Lloyd is Black. He appeared at a brief hearing Wednesday in Jackson.
Fortune’s mother Christy Spivey, who attended the hearing, said afterward that she was ecstatic to see arrests made in her daughter’s death. She said that neither she nor several of her daughter’s friends knew Lloyd, and she cautioned that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
“My family is not the only family that this is affecting,” Spivey said of the defendants’ families. “I feel for them as well. The only difference is that mine can never come back.”
Christy Spivey poses with a portrait of her late daughter Tasia Fortune on Sept. 8, 2026, in Marion, Kentucky. AP Photo/George Walker IV
“I’ll never truly have peace,” she said.
Ratliff was arrested in September on murder charges. He pleaded not guilty and remains jailed without bond.
After Ratliff’s arrest, Jackson’s police chief, RaShall Brackney, said Ratliff had an “association” with Fortune, but she didn’t elaborate.
Police said in a statement that they issued an arrest warrant for a third suspect, but gave no details about that person’s identity or alleged link to Fortune’s death. They also said they expect to issue additional warrants. After Ratliff’s arrest, Brackney said police interviewed over a dozen people and collected forensic evidence as part of the investigation.
Although police haven’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 recalled lynchings in the Southern state.Her death also comes one year after the hanging deaths of 21-year-old Trey Reed, a Black student at Delta State University in Cleveland, and Cory Zukatis, an unhoused White man, in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Both deaths were ruled suicides, though Reed’s family and attorneys have called for an independent autopsy.
A Kentucky native, Fortune had four children and had been living in Jackson for about a decade, relatives said. Spivey said earlier this month that the Fortune’s loved ones “still don’t have a lot of answers.”
Spivey previously said her daughter struggled with homelessness in recent years, and that she wasn’t sure where her daughter was living at the time of her death. She said that before her death, her daughter had talked about starting a cleaning business and was trying to get her life in order.
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