19 year-old Jessica Chambers, of Panola County, Mississippi was found badly burned on a road near her burning car Saturday night in what authorities have labeled a homicide.
“They have ripped everything I have,” the teen’s mother, Lisa Chambers, told Fox affiliate WDBD-TV. “She left to go clean out her car and was going to get [herself] something to eat.”
Panola County Sheriff Dennis Darby said the young woman died after she was doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire on a road in Courtland, Miss., a town with a population of 460 people.
When first responders arrived at the scene, Chambers reportedly uttered a few words that might lead detectives to her killer or killers. Police have not disclosed what Chambers said
“They squirted lighter fluid down her throat and in her nose, and apparently they knocked her out,” her father, Ben Chambers, told the station as he fought back tears. “She had a big gash on top of her head.”
Chambers was flown to a hospital in Memphis but later died. Authorities said initial autopsy results reveal that Chambers died from severe burns that covered 98 percent of her body.
No motive is known for the horrific crime.
Anyone with information on the murder is urged to contact the Panola County Sheriff’s Office at 662-563-6230.
