The man accused of killing a 19-year-old Mississippi woman allegedly burned her alive in her car after he mistakenly thought he had suffocated her, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
This week. the trial began for 29-year-old Quinton Tellis who has pleaded 'not guilty' in the murder of Jessica Chambers.
While prosecutors say Tellis is responsible, a defense attorney said Chambers told firefighters who found her near her burning car that a man named Eric set her on fire - not Tellis. The former high school cheerleader had been doused with a flammable liquid, set ablaze, and left to die beside her burning car.
Prosecutor John Champion told jurors that they will see graphic photos of a burned Chambers and they will hear from about 35 witnesses.
Chambers had burns on about 93 percent of her body when she was found along a rural back road on December 6, 2014, the prosecutor said. She died hours later at a Memphis hospital. Source
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