NATION: POLICE LOOKING FOR KILLER WHO SET A MS TEENAGE GIRL ON FIRE

FIRE828The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation and the Panola County Sheriff’s Office are seeking phone records and witnesses to find out who fatally lit a teenage girl on fire.

A passerby called the Panola County Sheriff’s Office to report a burning car near Highway 51 Saturday night.

Authorities say 19 year-old Jessica Chambers was found outside the car.

“When the fire department got there they say she was on fire out in the road,” said her father, Ben Chambers.

Chambers said his daughter tried to tell responders who killed her.

An emergency response team took Chambers to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, where she died.

“You couldn’t recognize her because she was unrecognizable,” Chambers described what he was told by doctors.

“The doctor told us it wasn’t nothing we can do, you know she was burned 98 percent of her body.”

“They said that as far as they could tell like they squirted fluid down her throat and up her nose because it just burned her on the inside so bad,” Chambers said.

“She had a big gash in her head like they knocked her out,” Chambers said.

The sheriff said deputies are on the lookout for two men they believe Jessica may have been with on Saturday night, although the assistant district attorney says there are no clear-cut suspects at this time.

Chambers, who works as a mechanic for the Panola County Sheriff’s Office, is looking for answers and calling for action against his daughter’s killer.

“I want to see justice,” Chambers said.

Her mother, Lisa Chambers, said she spoke with her daughter on the phone around 6:48 p.m. Jessica told her mother she was going to get a bite to eat.

Lisa Chambers said her daughter had a job at a department store, cheered in high school, and didn’t currently have a boyfriend.

She wants to see justice as well, Chambers said.

“God’s punishment is going to be far more worse than anything we can do,” Chambers said.