The second murder trial in the death of a Vidor teen almost five years ago started in Orange County Monday.
Kelvin Lee Roy, 36, of Beaumont, is being tried again for killing Alexandria "Lexy" Bertrand, 16, in February 2014. Bertrand died when the Honda minivan she was riding in was rear-ended at the intersection of Main Street and U.S. 90 in Vidor.
Roy was tried, convicted of murder and sentenced in February 2017 to 75 years in prison, but his conviction was later overturned because the jury was not allowed to consider a lesser charge of intoxication manslaughter.
Prosecutors argued that Roy intentionally tried to kill himself and his passenger by slamming into the vehicle that Bertrand was in. He and the passenger survived, but Bertrand did not.
The trial will be held before 163rd district court judge Dennis Powell.
