Woman Arraigned in Oktibbeha Shooting Death

Weeks

OKTIBBEHA COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) — Tessa Weeks had been extradited to Oktibbeha County to face charges in this past weekend’s homicide.

Weeks, 36, is charged with a single count of Accessory after the fact to Capital Murder.  Weeks was arraigned in Oktibbeha County Justice Court Tuesday and is free on a $20,000.00 bond.

The investigation into the homicide is ongoing.

Anyone with information in this or any other criminal case is asked to call the Oktibbeha County
Sheriff’s Department at 662-323-2421, the Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Department Investigations Unit at 662-324-8484 or any law enforcement agency.

The Starkville man who is the center of the case and is accused of killing one man and taking a woman hostage previously had been arrested for assaulting the woman.

Terrance Grayer, 38, was due to be arraigned later this year in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court on two aggravated domestic violence charges. They stemmed from incidents last summer involving Sarah Galinis,

She is the same woman Grayer is accused of kidnapping early Saturday after he shot 30-year-old James Chandler to death at Chandler’s home on John High Road just west of Starkville.

She was able to escape from his truck nearby at the intersection with Highway 182. The woman called sheriff’s deputies while Grayer picked up another woman, Weeks, and they fled.

Weeks was caught later Saturday following a brief car chase in Wayne County, Tennessee. Grayer fled but was found dead later of an apparent suicide. Weeks is being returned to Oktibbeha County this evening to face charges of accessory after the fact of murder.

Grayer also has two prior convictions in 2001 and 1010 for sale of cocaine. He was on house arrest after serving part of a 16-year sentence for the 2010 conviction.