A hung jury forced a mistrial in the case of a Mississippi man accused of setting 19-year-old Jessica Chambers on fire and killing her.

Jurors reported they couldn’t reach a verdict Monday in the week-long trial of 29-year-old Quinton Tellis, who faced capital murder charges for the second time in Panola County Circuit Court.

Judge Gerald Chatham Clarence declared the mistrial after a day and a half of deliberation when jurors were unable to reach a unanimous decision. Initial proceedings ended under the same circumstances.

Tellis was accused of dousing the teen cheerleader with gasoline then torching her car in December 2014 on a rural road in Courtland.

Prosecutors alleged Tellis met up several times with the teen, who was a recent acquaintance, on the day of her gruesome murder.

Tellis initially claimed they just spent the morning driving around with her friend, but changed his story when presented with surveillance footage and cellular data that placed them together on the night she died, according to prosecutors.

Investigators testified there were other inconsistencies with his alibi, such as his claim that he was with a friend named Big Mike, who officers later discovered was in Nashville to watch a football game on the day in question.

He also claimed to investigators that burn marks on his own body were from playing a bonfire game.

The defendant allegedly wiped his phone of all communication with Chambers in the aftermath of the teen’s death.

Tellis, however, adamantly insisted that he was innocent and was became emotional when questioned during a taped interrogation.

“I ain’t never killed nobody,” Tellis told authorities. “I don’t even got it in my heart.”

His lawyers centered their argument around testimony from multiple emergency responders who heard the dying teen name “Derek” or “Eric” as her attacker.

Two medical experts called to the stand by the prosecution challenged the possibility the teen girl would’ve have been able to speak given the extent of her injuries. Officials estimated that nearly 93 percent of Chambers’ body suffered burns in the horrific incident.

The teen’s family became emotional at times during the week-long trial, particularly when emergency responders described finding Chambers walking on the side of the road covered in soot and with her hair fried.

Tellis’ mistrial comes as he faces another murder indictment in the 2015 stabbing death of Meing-Chen Hsiao in Monroe, Louisiana. He already pleaded guilty in the case to unauthorized use of her debit card. He is currently serving a prison sentence for an unrelated burglary charge.