2026年9月11日 / 美国东部时间晚上7:52 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
密西西比州警方已逮捕一名男子，涉嫌杀害上月被发现吊死在树上的黑人女性塔西亚·福琼。
杰克逊警察局局长拉沙尔·布雷克尼在周五的新闻发布会上表示，警方已获得对贾克斯·拉特利夫的搜查令和逮捕令，并在街头偶遇他时将其逮捕。布雷克尼称，拉特利夫与福琼存在“关联”，但目前不会透露具体细节。
警方表示，51岁的拉特利夫已因谋杀罪被捕。
杰克逊警察局 供图
布雷克尼表示，州法医办公室已于周四晚间认定这是一起他杀案件，这让警方得以执行此前已准备好的搜查令和逮捕令。
“本案仍在调查中，后续可能会有更多逮捕行动，”布雷克尼说。
这位局长表示，警方已约谈了近15人，收集了法医证据，并追查了案件线索。“今日执行的搜查令和对拉特利夫先生的逮捕是重要进展，但调查仍在进行中，”布雷克尼说。
福琼的母亲克里斯蒂·斯派ive周五在警方告知她逮捕消息后表示：“我当时就哭了，对他们说了一遍又一遍‘谢谢，谢谢，谢谢’。”
斯派ive表示，警方没有透露作案动机，也没有说明是否通过DNA锁定了嫌疑人。斯派ive说她并不认识这名被捕男子，正在向女儿的朋友打听是否有人认识他。斯派ive形容家人“难以置信”，处于“震惊之中”。
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“我们仍然没有得到很多答案，”斯派ive说。
警方于8月3日在杰克逊一所废弃房屋的后院发现了29岁的福琼的尸体。
福琼去世不到一年前，克利夫兰三角洲州立大学的21岁黑人学生特雷·里德和维克斯堡一名30多岁无家可归的白人男子科里·祖卡蒂斯相继被发现上吊身亡。
克利夫兰警方认定里德的死为自杀。验尸结果与玻利瓦尔县验尸官的初步尸检一致，未发现他杀迹象。
里德的家人及其律师要求进行独立尸检，并要求当局公开监控录像。
密西西比州州法医认定祖卡蒂斯死于自杀。
Man arrested in death of Tasia Fortune, Mississippi woman found hanging from tree
September 11, 2026 / 7:52 PM EDT / CBS/AP
Mississippi police have arrested a man in the death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree last month.
Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said at a news conference Friday that police had secured search and arrest warrants for Jarques Ratliff and arrested him when they encountered him walking on the street. Brackney said Ratliff had an “association” with Fortune but would not disclose details about it at this time.
Ratliff, 51, was arrested on a charge of murder, police said.
The mug shot of Jarques Ratliff, 51. Jackson Police Department
The state medical examiner’s office determined Thursday evening that the death was a homicide, Brackney said, allowing them to execute the warrants they already had on hand.
“This case remains active and additional arrests will be pending,” Brackney said.
The chief said police interviewed nearly 15 people, collected forensic evidence and pursued leads in the case. “The warrants executed today and the arrest of Mr. Ratliff are significant steps, but there is still an ongoing investigation,” Brackney said.
Christy Spivey, Fortune’s mother, said Friday after police told her of the arrest that “I just started crying and told them ‘thank you, thank you, thank you.’”
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Spivey said police did not share a motive or whether DNA led them to the arrest. Spivey said she did not know the man who had been arrested, but was asking her daughter’s friends if they knew him. Spivey described the family as “in disbelief” and “shock.”
Christy Spivey poses with a portrait of her late daughter Tasia Fortune on Sept. 8, 2026, in Marion, Kentucky. AP Photo/George Walker IV
“We still don’t have a lot of answers,” Spivey said.
Police discovered 29-year-old Fortune’s body hanging in the backyard of an abandoned home in Jackson on Aug. 3.
Fortune died less than a 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 his 30s, in Vicksburg.
Police in Cleveland concluded Reed’s death was a suicide. Autopsy results were consistent with a preliminary examination of the body by the Bolivar County coroner, which found no evidence of foul play.
Reed’s family and their attorneys called for an independent autopsy and for authorities to share security camera recordings.
The Mississippi State Medical Examiner determined Zukatis died by suicide.
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