Quinton Tellis’ DNA was recovered from Jessica’s vehicle, and his fingerprint was found on her car keys, which seemed proof enough that the grand jury indicted him on the charges of capital murder in February of 2016, for which he soon pleaded not guilty. Quinton went on trial for the very first time in October of 2017.
But instead of an Eric, it was Quinton Tellis, the man who was romantically involved with Jessica at the time, who was eventually charged and arrested for her murder. Who Is Quinton Tellis? Quinton Tellis, of Courtland, Mississippi, first came in contact with Jessica Chambers in November of 2014, when he was 26-years-old.
A man named Quentin Tellis was charged with the cheerleader’s death. His two trials both ended with hung juries. Tellis also was charged with the August 2015 stabbing death of Ming-Chen Hsiao, a University of Louisiana student. Tellis pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of Hsiao’s credit card and was sentenced to 10 years prison.
His two trials both ended with hung juries. Tellis also was charged with the August 2015 stabbing death of Ming-Chen Hsiao, a University of Louisiana student. Tellis pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of Hsiao’s credit card and was sentenced to 10 years prison.
Where is Quinton Tellis?
Currently, Quinton Tellis is behind bars, at the Ouachita Correctional Center in Monroe, for an unrelated crime. He is accused of the August 2015 murder of Ming-Chen Hsiao, an international student at the University of Louisiana-Monroe, who was stabbed over 30 times. In May 2016, Quinton pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized use …
Quinton Tellis, of Courtland, Mississippi, first came in contact with Jessica Chambers in November of 2014, when he was 26-years- old. They exchanged numbers after a brief conversation and soon began texting, calling, and hanging out with one another as much as possible. It was just constant communication between them.
In May 2016, Quinton pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized use of Ming-Chen’s access card and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for being a habitual offender. But soon, he will go to court in Louisiana and be tried for her murder as well.
Since Quinton, apart from a short voicemail, never once tried contacting Jessica again, deleted all her texts, calls, and contact information from his phone in the days that followed, and had left some DNA behind, he became the prime suspect.
Quinton Tellis’ DNA was recovered from Jessica’s vehicle, and his fingerprint was found on her car keys, which seemed proof enough that the grand jury indicted him on the charges of capital murder in February of 2016, for which he soon pleaded not guilty. Quinton went on trial for the very first time in October of 2017.
How long is Tellis in jail?
Assistant Ouachita Parish District Attorney Neal Johnson tells PEOPLE that because he’s a habitual offender, Tellis, 27, will serve 10 years in prison with no possibility of parole. Tellis has two prior residential burglary convictions in Mississippi, says Johnson, who describes Tellis as “a dangerous, bad person.”.
Tellis waived his extradition and will be transferred to Mississippi to face murder charges in Chambers’s death after he is processed by the Louisiana Department of Corrections, Johnson says. Tellis used the credit card of Meing-Chen Hsiao, 34, a former Taiwanese exchange student who was found dead in August, 2015 with multiple stab wounds, …
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Tellis is the prime suspect in Hsaio’s death. Johnson says that he feels “very confident that he did it,” but he says the case is almost entirely circumstantial and he will not prosecute it unless Tellis is found not guilty in Chambers’s death. “They have a much stronger case over there,” he says.
But Champion did not release a possible motive in Chambers’s death and Tellis has not yet entered a plea. Champion says he believes Tellis acted alone. Authorities were able to allegedly place Tellis and Chambers together using cell phone records.
Johnson says a conviction on that charge would send Tellis to prison for the rest of his life because after Thursday’s plea, he already has three felony convictions.
Who is Quinton Tellis?
Quinton Tellis is charged with capital murder, accused of dousing 19-year-old Chambers with gasoline then setting her on fire, leaving her to die in Courtland, Mississippi back in 2014.
The trial troubles started when the jury entered the courtroom and the foreman answered the judge that they had reached a unanimous verdict.
Friends and family of Tellis had hoped for a “not guilty” verdict, but they’ll take a mistrial.
Phone data, prosecutors argued, put Tellis in the same place as Chambers on the night of her murder.
Tellis admitted to using the dead student’s debit card and now faces indictment in her murder.
The jury returned from deliberation three times, at one point declaring a “not guilty” verdict, only to eventually come back with the announcement that they could not reach a unanimous verdict. Quinton Tellis is charged with capital murder, …
Where is John Tellis serving his sentence?
Though Tellis has not been convicted of Chambers’ murder, he is currently serving a five-year-sentence on the unrelated charge of burglarizing an unoccupied building, a sentence he is serving at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, according to USA Today.
But there are still some familiar with the case who believe that Tellis is innocent, as the new Oxygen docuseries Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers, seeks to chronicle when it premieres on Saturday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. ET.
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