Jackson police have arrested a second man in the death of Tasia Fortune and obtained an arrest warrant for a third suspect.
\n\nJackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney announced the arrest during a Tuesday night city council meeting.
\n\nNBC affiliate WLBT of Jackson identified the man as Earnest Lloyd Jr., 25.
\n\n“What I can tell you is, today, we’ve taken another person into custody and charged them with homicide in this case,” Brackney said.
\n\nThe U.S. Marshals are assisting with the third warrant.
\n\nFortune, a Black woman, was found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned home in Mississippi in August. The case quickly made national headlines and raised concerns because of the state’s history of racially motivated violence and distrust of police handling of death investigations involving Black people.
\n\nOver the decades, Mississippi has had more public lynchings than any other state, according to the NAACP, with 581 recorded between 1882 and 1968.
\n\nEarlier this month, Jarques Ratliff, 51, was arrested and charged with murder in Fortune’s death. He was denied bond at a court hearing after pleading not guilty.
\n\nBoth Ratliff and Lloyd are Black. A motive and Fortune’s cause of death have not been released.
\n\nPolice said Ratliff…
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