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Published: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 @ 4:23 PMUpdated: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 @ 4:21 PMBy: The Associated Press
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BATESVILLE, Miss. — A acutely austere Mississippi woman told firefighters afore she died that addition called Eric set her on fire, several of the firefighters testified Wednesday.
The firefighters and paramedics testified in the balloon of Quinton Tellis in Batesville, Mississippi, about 50 afar (80 kilometers) south of Memphis, Tennessee.
Tellis has pleaded not accusable to basic annihilation in the afterlife of the 19-year-old Jessica Chambers, who authorities said was begin with burns on 93 percent of her anatomy on Dec. 6, 2014, in Courtland, Mississippi. She died hours after at a Memphis hospital. Prosecutors say Tellis set Chambers and her car on blaze in a rural aback alley and larboard her to die.
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Defense advocate Darla Palmer maintained in aperture statements Tuesday that Tellis has been falsely accused, and that Chambers' dying account to firefighters shows the analgesic was addition else.
The alarming affairs surrounding the above aerial academy cheerleader's afterlife garnered civic attention. The balloon has been emotional, with assemblage breaking bottomward on the angle and assemblage arrant aback jurors were apparent clear photos of Chambers' austere abdomen and face.
Citing statements Tellis fabricated to investigators, prosecutor John Champion said in his aperture account that Tellis and Chambers had sex in her car the black she was begin burned. Champion said he believes Tellis suffocated Chambers and anticipation he had dead her.
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Tellis again collection Chambers' car with her central it to the aback road, ran to his sister's abode nearby, jumped in his sisters' car, chock-full to aces up gasoline from a afford at his abode and torched Chambers' car and her, Champion said.
Firefighters who responded to the arena captivated Chambers in blankets to accumulate her warm. She was cutting annihilation but underwear aback she was found, and she had agitation adage added than a few words at a time, firefighters said.
One of the aboriginal firefighters on the scene, Daniel Cole, said Chambers had charcoal about her adenoids and mouth. Cole said he asked her, "Who did this?"
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Cole said he heard her say, "Eric set me on fire."
Firefighter Shane Mills said he was abashed to see her condition. Mills said he knew Chambers, but did not admit her at first.
"One of the affliction things you could imagine," Mills said. "I can't account it for y'all. Her beard was, you know, admirable blonde. You attending at it at the time, her beard is aloof fried."
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Tellis, 29, faces activity in bastille after acquittal if convicted. He additionally faces a annihilation allegation in Louisiana, area he's accused in the ache afterlife of Meing-Chen Hsiao, a 34-year-old Taiwanese alum apprentice at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. No balloon date has been set in that case.
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