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Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr. will face a retrial for the murder of University of Mississippi student Jimmie "Jay" Lee.

Herrington's first capital murder trial in December 2024 ended in a mistrial after the jury was deadlocked.

The retrial is scheduled for December 2025, with a jury selected from Madison County.

Starting Monday, Dec. 1, Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr. will stand retrial for the murder of University of Mississippi student Jimmie "Jay" Lee .

Lee, a 20-year-old beloved member of the Oxford LGBTQ+ community and a Jackson native, disappeared on July 8, 2022. His mother reported Lee's absence to local authorities. Lee disappeared on his mother's birthday .

A few weeks after Lee's disappearance, Herrington was arrested and charged with kill

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