DESOTO COUNTY, Miss. — The man charged in the murder of Jessica Chambers is back in Mississippi.
Quinton Tellis arrived at the Desoto County Jail around 6:15 p.m.
Tellis was indicted in the Chambers case back in February at the same time he was in jail for an unrelated case in Monroe, Louisiana.
He entered a guilty plea to unauthorized use of a credit card that belonged to a murdered ULM student on the first day of his trial.
Teelis waived his extradition rights to Mississippi where he is set to face first-degree murder charges for Chamber’s death back in December 2014.
hambers was set on fire on a rural road in Panola County.
Around 98% of her body was burned.
She later died from her injuries.
Learn more about the Chambers case via our archive.
Quinton Tellis just arrived at the Desoto County jail. He's charged with Jessica Chambers' murder pic.twitter.com/B8Fu1fuTzx
— Jessica Gertler (@jgertler_WREG3) June 23, 2016