Does this photo, found in several viral social media posts, show the man that Mississippi police found hanging from a tree on September 15, 2025? No, that's not true: Police said the dead man found near the Ameristar Vicksburg Casino was Cory Zukaitis. But, the Warren County Coroner said this photo is not Zukaitis.
The photo appeared in a September 15, 2025 Facebook post (archived here) on the 7Nationofislam page under the title:
Cory zukatis was found hanging from tree in Vicksburg Mississippi pray for his family 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 2 men in less then 24 hours these young men not hanging they self
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at facebook.com/7Nationofislam)
Lead Stories interviewed Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey about the photo on September 17, 2025. Huskey examined the body of the man found hanging and that photo (shown above) is not a match. Emailed the photo, Huskey replied:
Not him.
Emailed the photo that WJTV and other Mississippi television stations have broadcast, (archived here) Huskey said it correctly shows the man whose corpse he examined and identified after police retrieved it from a tree near the Ameristar Vicksburg Casino:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of photo released by Vicksburg Police Department and published by WJTV.com.)
