Quinton Tellis hearing delayed due to "scheduling conflict"

A hearing for the man accused in the 2014 burning death of Jessica Chambers is being delayed.

The Commercial Appeal reported Saturday that District Attorney John Champion says the July 5 hearing will be delayed over a scheduling conflict.

Champion said lawyers for Quinton Tellis could not make the date. He did not have a new date for the hearing.

A grand jury charged Tellis with the death in February, which ended a lengthy investigation into the grisly killing.

Tellis was being held in Louisiana at the time of the indictment. He pleaded guilty in May there to unauthorized use of a debit card which belonged to a slain Louisiana woman. Tellis was not charged in her death.

He was extradited to Mississippi on Thursday.