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.

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.

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

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.

A jury was sent back to deliberate at approximately 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Lafayette County Courthouse in murder trial of Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr.