Jessica Chambers Case: Quinton Tellis Retrial

After hours of deliberation, a jury could not unanimously determine the guilt of Quinton Tellis in a retrial.

Cell phones had been banned from the Mississippi courtroom. 

Prosecutors say Quinton Tellis is responsible for the death of the Jessica Chambers, who was mortally wounded after her car was set on fire in 2014.

The prosecution also tried to answer who the “mystery man” was at the crime scene the night of Jessica Chamber’s death.

Sherry Flowers did not identify Quinton Tellis in court, however, as the person hitchiking in 2014.

The dying teen seemed to be able to understand and answer questions in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, Panola County Deputy Sheriff Daryl House testified.

Quinton Tellis is accused of burning 19-year-old Jessica Chambers alive in the small town of Courtland, Mississippi.

In the first day of testimony in Quinton Tellis’s retrial, first responders recall finding Jessica Chambers covered in burns.

Prosecutors are hoping Dr. Carolyn Wiles Higdon's testimony undercuts a key argument used by the defense in the first court case - that Jessica Chambers identified her killer and it wasn't the defendant, Quinton Tellis.