Photo By Chambers-Prince Families/AP
Photo By Chambers-Prince Families/AP
COURTLAND, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi authorities have launched a homicide investigation into the death of a 19-year-old woman who was doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire.
Panola County Coroner Gracie Gulledge says the cause of death was thermal injuries. Authorities say initial autopsy results reveal Jessica Chambers died from burns that covered 98 percent of her body.
District Attorney John Champion says investigators were questioning several possible witnesses and reviewing Chambers' cellphone data.
A passerby called firefighters who found Chambers' body Saturday near her burning car near Courtland.
Darby says detectives were working to learn who the woman may have been with before her death.
Entities 0 Name: COURTLAND Count: 2 1 Name: Panola County Count: 1 2 Name: John Champion Count: 1 3 Name: Mississippi Count: 1 4 Name: Miss. Count: 1 5 Name: Darby Count: 1 6 Name: AP Count: 1 7 Name: Jessica Chambers Count: 1 8 Name: Gracie Gulledge Count: 1 Related 0 Url: http://ift.tt/12JBJU6 Title: Police hunt for killer in burning death of 19-year-old Mississippi woman Description: Investigators are hoping Jessica Chambers' final words will lead them to the killer or killers who burned the 19-year-old teenager alive in a gruesome murder Saturday that has stunned the small Mississippi community of Courtland. Chambers, of Panola County, was found badly burned on a road near her burning car Saturday night in what authorities have labeled a homicide.
