Meanwhile, police still have not found Lee’s body more than 75 days after he went missing. Lee is the
third feminine-presenting queer person killed in Mississippi this year, according to the Human Rights Campaign – a number that reflects
the high rate of violence against the state’s small LGBTQ community.
The Oxford Police Department has not shared new information about the case since the preliminary hearing when Ryan Baker, a detective, testified that Herrington drove a moving truck to Grenada the same day that he allegedly killed Lee and retrieved a shovel and wheelbarrow from his parent’s house in the GlenBrook neighborhood.
But it’s unclear to what extent OPD is working with law enforcement in Grenada. The sheriff, Rolando Fair, told Mississippi Today he could not comment because “the investigation is not my investigation” and no one from Oxford has reached out to him personally even though officers
executed a search warrant on Herrington’s parent’s house in late July.
In his letter to the judge, Fair wrote he has known Herrington’s family for over 20 years.