JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man charged with killing a University of Mississippi graduate who was prominent in the LGBTQ+ community pleaded guilty on Monday to second-degree murder and tampering charges as he faced a second trial.

FILE – Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr., who is on trial on a capital murder charge in the 2022 death of University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee, looks out into the courtroom during the lunch break, in Oxford, Miss. on Dec. 3, 2024. (Bruce Newman/The Northeast Daily Journal via AP, Pool, File)

Sheldon “Timothy” Herrington Jr. entered the plea in the death of Jimmie “Jay” Lee, a gay man who disappeared in July 2022. A judge declared a mistrial last year after jurors failed to reach a verdict.

Lee went missing from Oxford, where the university is located

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