Spivey past saw her girl live connected 26 July, erstwhile Fortune had travelled from Mississippi, wherever she had lived for astir the past decade, to Kentucky, wherever Spivey lives, for a household reunion.
The adjacent clip she saw her girl - successful a ceremonial home, days earlier her burial - she could hardly look astatine her body.
"I didn't look consecutive astatine her. Her daddy did," she said. "I benignant of looked from the side."
Spivey remembered their past conversation. "She was talking about, you know, possibly adjacent coming home," she explained.
Fortune's decease has near the assemblage acrophobic that radical unit successful Mississippi could beryllium connected the emergence again. And successful the lack of factual details astir the case, their suspicions are near to fester.
Fortune's decease was the 3rd incidental successful Mississippi successful little than a twelvemonth wherever constabulary recovered idiosyncratic dormant and hanged from a tree.
The different 2 bodies - 1 achromatic male, 1 achromatic - were discovered successful September 2025, connected the nonstop aforesaid day.
Both were ruled a suicide, though the parent of 1 of the deceased - Trey Reed - contests those findings.
Fed-up residents person launched an online petition, which has gathered much than 50,000 signatures, for an autarkic probe into the state's main aesculapian examiner, Dr Staci Turner, implicit the handling of a caller spate of cases involving radical of colour. Another petition asks for the FBI to motorboat an probe into Fortune's death
The BBC has asked Turner for comment.
Jackson City Councilman Kenneth Stokes has besides expressed concerns astir the constabulary investigation, saying he'd been extracurricular the location wherever Fortune was thought to person lived aggregate times and has ne'er seen officers.
"All cases are important, but this 1 - a hanging successful Mississippi - should emergence to the apical of the nutrient chain," Stokes said.
He told the BBC helium sent letters to some national prosecutors astatine the Mississippi US attorney's bureau and the FBI weeks ago, urging that the probe was "in dire request of assistance". He has yet to perceive backmost from either.
"Nothing from nobody," Stokes said. "It's similar cipher cares."
The BBC has reached retired to the Mississippi US attorney's bureau and the section FBI bureau for comment.
US Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett has likewise requested national intervention. In a missive to the US Department of Justice, she asked for an probe into caller deaths successful Mississippi - including that of Tasia Fortune - calling them "possible cases of modern-day lynchings". She cited the state's "appalling humanities estimation of convulsive coercion against achromatic Americans".
In summation to Mississippi, determination person been aggregate different cases nationally of achromatic Americans recovered hanged from trees, including 4 successful North Carolina this twelvemonth alone. Three were ruled a suicide. An autopsy is pending for the 4th death.
The BBC has reached retired to the justness section for comment.
Stokes is wide that helium does not cognize whether Fortune's decease was a lynching, oregon whether contention played a portion astatine all. Nor does helium care. He conscionable wants answers.
Brandon King, president of the pupil National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) section astatine adjacent Jackson State University, said the enigma of Fortune's death, combined with minimal updates from police, has led him and others to beryllium "extra cautious" astir campus.
The feeling, King said, was that "hey, you could beryllium next. This is successful Jackson. This is successful your backyard".
The thought is other worrying, helium continued, due to the fact that "this is expected to beryllium the capital. This is wherever I'm expected to consciousness the astir safe".
As for Spivey, she cried earlier heading to a ceremonial location for her daughter, dreading having to capable retired a decease certificate and determine whether to cremate oregon hide her firstborn child.
She wanted to cremate her girl but decided, successful the end, for a burial. She said she was holding retired anticipation determination would beryllium updates successful the investigation, which mightiness mean needing to exhume her corpse.
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