Quinton Tellis Trial

Prosecutors say Quinton Tellis, 29, doused 19-year-old former high school cheerleader Jessica Chambers with a flammable liquid, set her ablaze, and then left her to die beside her burning car along a back road near a north Mississippi tree farm.

In December 2014, surveillance video showed Chambers was at a gas station less than two hours before she was found. Wearing a sweater and pajama pants that looked like sweatpants, she put $14 worth of gas in her car, more than the $5 or so she usually purchased, Ali Fadhel, a clerk at the gas station, told The Associated Press in the days after her death.

“I asked her, ‘Why are you putting so much gas?’ She said, ‘I’m going somewhere,’” Fadhel said.

On her way out, Chambers got a call on her cellphone, Fadhel said.

Around 8 p.m., firefighters discovered Chambers was set on fire and left to die beside her burning car. She had burns to over 98 percent of her body.

She died several hours later at a Memphis hospital.

The main question investigators tried to determine early on in the case was where Chambers was between the time she was spotted at the gas station at 6: 30 p.m. and when fire crews discovered her on fire at 8 p.m.

While they have not revealed anything specific, Champion said they have “absolutely filled that hour in.”

The prosecutor has not revealed to reporters what Chambers told firefighters when they found her. That, along with other information on how that day unfolded, will be revealed in court.

Tellis, a reported friend of the victim, was indicted in February 2016, more than a year after Chamber’s death.

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