Judge sets $5m bond for third suspect in killing of Black woman hung from tree in Mississippi

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A Mississippi judge set a $5 million bond for Eric Clark, the third man charged in the death of Tasia Fortune.
Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman, was found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned house in Jackson, Mississippi.
Police disclosed that Fortune was killed before her body was placed in the tree and the scene was staged.
The discovery of Fortune's body hanging from a tree sparked fears of racial violence due to Mississippi's history of lynchings.
Eric Clark, Jarques Ratliff, and Earnest Lloyd Jr are all Black men charged in Fortune's death.
Ratliff and Lloyd Jr have been denied bond.
Jackson police chief RaShall Brackney stated that Fortune was killed as a result of a dispute over drugs.
Fortune's mother reported that Clark told her he was there to turn himself in for murder.

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