COURTLAND, Miss. — Jessica Chambers was a former cheerleader and softball player who had started a new job and hoped to begin college next year, friends and relatives say.
She liked to smile and playfully stick out her tongue at people. She was friendly and trusting of others, making her mother wonder if her outgoing personality had anything to do with her daughter’s death.
“She didn’t think anybody could harm her or would want to,” her mother, Lisa Chambers, said Thursday.
Jessica Chambers, 19, was doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire Saturday, authorities said. Police were reconstructing the last few hours of her life and appealed to residents of this small town to come forward with any information. So far, they have few solid leads.
Chambers’ mother spoke to her daughter about an hour before her death.