PANOLA COUNTY, Miss., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Police in Mississippi are currently questioning persons of interest in connection with the Saturday burning death of Jessica Chambers, currently being investigated as a homicide.
Chambers was discovered engulfed in flames next to her burning car Saturday night. The 19-year-old was air-lifted to a hospital in Memphis where she later died.
"When the fire department got there, she was walking down the road on fire," described the Chambers' father, Ben, adding "[The] only part of her body that wasn't burned was the bottom of her feet."
"They squirted lighter fluid down her throat and in her nose, and apparently they knocked her out. She had a big gash on top of her head."
Autopsy results show Chambers had severe burns on 98 percent of her body at the time of her death.
"They have ripped everything I have," Lisa Chambers, Jessica's mother, told WMCA.
Ben Chambers, who used to work as an employee at the Panola County Sheriff's Office, says he was told Lisa used her last words to identify her killer to police.
"She told them, she told them, told him who done it," Chambers said.
Assistant District Attorney Jay Hale told WREG police currently have no formally declared suspects, but believe Chambers had plans to meet with two individuals.
"We do have a phone that we believe is hers and that is what we are attempting to gather the information from," Hale said.
"We're trying to go through the information that we have, certainly interviewing all the potential witnesses we can and going through and using the phone records we can."
