A suspect has been charged in the death of Jessica Chambers, the 19-year-old Mississippi woman burned to death in her small town in December 2014.
Chambers death rocked the town of Courtland, which is home to about 500 residents. District Attorney John Champion told Buzzfeed last year. “I bet if you polled a hundred people and asked them to name their greatest fear of dying, burning would be number one. When you see a case like this, it’s often very, very personal.”
Quinton Verdell Tellis, 27, was indicted on capital murder charges by a grand jury in Panola County, The Clarion-Ledger reports. He is already in custody in Louisiana on an unrelated charge.
He Is Suspected in the Death of a Louisiana Woman & Was Arrested for Using Her Credit Card
Quinton “Quint” Tellis is currently being held by the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana on drug and unlawful use of a credit card charges, Fox 13 Memphis reports.
Tellis is suspected in the murder of the woman whose credit card police say he was caught using illegally, KNOE-TV reported in November 2015. He has been in custody since August 2015.
Meing Chen Hsiao, a 34-year-old former University of Louisiana-Monroe exchange student, was found stabbed to death in her apartment that month.
Tellis was convicted of residential burglary and fleeing a law enforcement officer in 2010, and was sentenced to five years in prison, but was released on probation that same year. He was arrested for violating his probation in 2010, and then for residential burglary in 2011. He was sentenced to four years in prison that time.
Tellis was released on probation in 2014 and then left Mississippi, absconding from supervision
so in reality... justice FAILED again to protect this young girl from a horrible death... and then the scum went on to kill and rob another woman..
a quick search will show the thug is covered in gang tattoos and has a long history of criminal behavior..