Hours after jury deliberations began in his murder trial, the jury was unable to decide a verdict on the case involving Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr. The news comes more than two years after Jimmie “Jay” Lee,

A jury was deadlocked in the Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr., murder trial Wednesday. Wednesday. They could not reach a decision in the death of Jimmie Jay Lee.

During Day 6 of the Jimmie Jay Lee trial in Oxford on Monday, a detective provided a comprehensive account of the steps taken by investigators before the arrest of Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr., who is accused of murdering Jimmie Jay Lee.

Closing arguments started Wednesday in the capital murder trial of Sheldon Herrington Jr., the man accused of killing Ole Miss student Jimmie Jay Lee.

Two weeks after Lee's disappearance, authorities arrested Herrington, 24, who was later indicted on a capital murder charge in connection to the case. Herrington was a 22-year-old Ole Miss graduate from Grenada at the time of the alleged offense.

After deliberating for more than nine hours, a sequestered Forrest County jury found itself hopelessly deadlock in the Timothy Herrington capital murder trial in Oxford.