A Lafayette County judge declared Jimmie "Jay" Lee, a missing Ole Miss student, legally dead more than two years after Lee's disappearance.

A Lafayette County judge has declared Ole Miss student Jimmie "Jay" Lee legally dead. Jimmie "Jay" Lee, 20, was last seen July 8, 2022 leaving an apartment complex in Oxford. Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr., 22, of Grenada, was arrested less than a month after Lee's disappearance. Herrington is awaiting trial on a capital murder charge.

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A Lafayette County Circuit Court Judge has officially declared a missing Ole Miss student as dead as the case continues against his accused killer. In an order dated Oct. 15, 2024, the judge said, “the proof is evident and the presumption is great” that Jimmie 'Jay' Lee is dead.

OXFORD, Miss. (WTVA) — A Lafayette County circuit court judge declared a missing Ole Miss student dead. The parents of Jimmie “Jay” Lee filed a request with the court in September, and court documents show the judge granted their request. Lee disappeared in July 2022 in Oxford. He’s had no communication with his parents since then.

The University of Mississippi student, Jimmie “Jay” Lee, has officially been presumed dead by the court after a petition was filed for a declaration of death.