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MONROE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — Officials announced Wednesday that Quinton Tellis, who was tried twice for the murder of a Mississippi woman, will not face trial for the murder of a University of Louisiana-Monroe graduate. Last week, Fourth Judicial District Court Judge Larry Jefferson dismissed the indictment against Tellis on the basis of information that the […]

Authorities have alleged that Tellis cut her more than 30 times — on her shoulders, face and ears — until she provided her personal identification number. They say Tellis then killed her and left her body to rot.

One person is dead following an early morning shooting in Mississippi.

A man accused of killing women in Louisiana and Mississippi is back in northeast Louisiana, where a prosecutor says a grand jury will consider charges in a Taiwanese woman’s stabbing death in 2015.

We reached out to Tellis’ attorney for a comment but have not heard back.

A Louisiana prosecutor says his office will confer with Mississippi counterparts before trying a man who has been accused of murder in both states.

The jury has reached a verdict in the Jessica Chambers murder trial.

At the start of court Monday morning, the judge made an announcement saying that someone had snuck a phone into the courtroom in Batesville and snapped a picture of the jury.

Tellis faces another murder indictment in 2015′s death of Meing-Chen Hsiao in Monroe, Louisiana.

WREG will be streaming the proceedings live starting at 8:30 a.m. online and on our WREG Facebook page.

The jury in the Jessica Chambers murder trial returns for day four of testimony.