US EditionMan Pleads Guilty to Killing an Ole Miss Graduate Who Was Prominent in the LGBTQ+ Community
Herrington admitted guilt after a mistrial and faces sentencing for second-degree murder and evidence tampering in the death of Jay Lee, a prominent LGBTQ+ University of Mississippi graduate.
- On Monday, Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr. pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and tampering, and he faces sentencing on Tuesday.
- Lee, who was 20 at the time, went missing, and two weeks later Herrington was arrested and indicted on capital murder and tampering counts.
- Prosecutors say the killing followed a sexual encounter, alleging Herrington, who was not openly gay, killed Lee after the two had a sexual encounter that ended badly, and deer hunters found Lee's skeletal remains this year in Carroll County, Mississippi.
- The plea removes the need for the scheduled capital retrial this week as a judge declared a mistrial last year after jurors deadlocked in Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr.'s case.
- Last month the medical examiner said the remains' condition prevented cause and manner determination, and both Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr. and Jimmie 'Jay' Lee, University of Mississippi graduate and prominent LGBTQ+ community member, were Ole Miss graduates.
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The Clarion LedgerFamily of Jimmie Jay Lee speaks after sentencing of Sheldon Herrington
Stephanie and Jimmie Lee Sr. speak out on the death of their son, Jimmie "Jay" Lee after the sentencing of Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr. in Oxford, MS.
Herrington to serve 40 years
Timothy Herrington will spend at least 40 years in prison for killing Jimmie “Jay” Lee, a University of Mississippi student who disappeared in 2022. Herrington was arrested two weeks after Lee vanished. Lee’s body was discovered over two years later in February 2025, when hunters in rural Carroll County discovered human remains later confirmed through DNA testing to be Lee’s. At the recommendation of the District Attorney’s Office, Circuit Court…
Man sentenced in death of Ole Miss student Jimmie ‘Jay’ Lee
OXFORD, Miss. (WJTV) - The man who pled guilty to killing University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee was sentenced in Oxford. During the sentencing hearing for Sheldon Timothy Herrington on December 2, 2025, he was sentenced to 40 years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) for second-degree murder with 10 [...]
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