Retrial In The Jessica Chambers Case

The re-trial of a man charged with killing a north Mississippi woman by setting her on fire has been set. Panola county district attorney john champion said Thursday that the second trial in the death of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers has been scheduled for June 11 in Batesville, Mississippi. Quinton Tellis has pleaded not guilty to capital murder. His trial in October ended in a hung jury and a mistrial. Prosecutors said Tellis set chambers and her car on fire in a rural back road in Courtland, Mississippi, on the night of December 6th in 2014. Firefighters found a smoldering chambers walking near the car. She had third-degree burns on most of her body when she died at a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.