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    UPDATE - Burning victim's last words could lead detectives to her killer

    Burning victim's last words could lead detectives to her killer

    Posted: Dec 08, 2014 1:04 PM CSTUpdated: Dec 09, 2014 9:40 AM CST
    By Michael Clark



    (Source: Chambers family)


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    PANOLA CO, MS (WMC) -Family members of a teenager burned alive on Saturday night are desperate for answers in the heinous Mississippi murder.

    Jessica Chambers, 19, was found burning near her car that was also engulfed in flames. She was flown to a hospital in Memphis but later died. Early autopsy results reveal that Jessica died from severe burns that covered 98 percent of her body.

    "They have ripped everything I have," added Lisa Chambers, Jessica's mother. "She left to go clean out her car and was going to get her something to eat."

    The 19-year-old never made it home.

    Her father, Ben Chambers, said investigators told him his daughter was set on fire.

    "When the fire department got there, she was walking down the road on fire," he said. "Only part of her body that wasn't burned was the bottom of her feet."

    He continued as he held back tears, "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."

    In her last breaths, she may have sent investigators down her killer's trail.

    "She told them, she told them, told him who done it," Chambers said.

    Investigators won't say what Jessica said or release the chilling details about how she died.

    "I love her you know, I'm so sorry Daddy wasn't there for her," her dad said. "I'd trade places with her in a minute if I could."

    Ben Chambers worked as an employee for Panola County Sheriff's Office. He has faith that his friends and co-workers will get to the bottom of the crime.

    Her parents are not the only people left wondering who could do something so violent.

    Several people in town are taking to Facebook asking for #justiceforjessica. Friends like Alicia Faulkner are taking to social media to demand answers, gaining more than 7,000 "likes" in less than a day.

    "For her, if she was here to know all these people care about her," said Faulkner. "We just want the story out there."

    Assistant District Attorney Jay Hale knows someone in the community knows something and is pleading for help. Detectives are working to learn who the 19-year-old may have been with before her murder.
    "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," Hale said.

    "The sheriff called me this morning he told me, he said, 'I'm working hard,'" Chambers said. “They took something from me I can't ever get back. Not ever, you know? It's a part of me gone forever."
    Jessica's mother hopes for a tip that could lead to her daughter's killer or killers. "Even if they don't think it's information, if it's just something they heard, to please call the sheriff's department," Lisa Chambers said.

    Several people are being questioned by detectives, but no arrests have been made. The teen's car, and any potential clues inside, are charred black. Investigators did find a cell phone at the scene.

    "We do have a phone that we believe is hers and that is what we are attempting to gather the information from," said Hale. Detectives spent Monday going through the phone for clues.

    Jessica Chambers' visitation is scheduled for Friday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Wells Funeral Home in Batesville, MS. She will be laid to rest at the chapel on Saturday at 2 p.m.

    As Lisa Chambers prepares to bury her daughter, she has just one question for whomever is responsible.
    "Why?" Chambers asked. "How would you like for it to be done to you, your daughter, your mother, your father, someone in your family?"

    http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/27575...nttype=generic
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    please message me if anyone spots a suspect named or arrested in this horrible case!

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    FBI BUSTS GANG MEMBERS IN PROBE OF TEEN'S BURNING DEATH

    Victim doused with gasoline, killed after leaving convenience store

    Published: 14 hours ago
    CHERYL CHUMLEY

    This undated photograph shows Jessica Chambers, who died after being set on fire in Courtland, Miss. on Dec. 6, 2014.


    The investigation into the murder of a 19-year-old Mississippi teen who was doused with gasoline and burned alive, has resulted in the arrests of 17 suspected gang members between the ages of 18 and 40, though none are charged in her death, reports The Clarion-Ledger.

    The FBI says the men have been charged in north Mississippi as a part of a major operation called “Operation Bite Back.”

    The suspects have been charged with a variety of crimes, from child endangerment and sales of narcotics to possession of stolen firearms and possession of counterfeit money, Fox News reported.

    “It’s taken eight or nine months, if not a little longer, to get to this point,” Panola County District Attorney John Champion said, in the Clarion-Ledger. “And this is not over by any stretch of the imagination.”


    Jacnicholas Scott, from top left, James Mosely, Joshua Mandella Cannon, from bottom left, Gregory Andrews, Mondarious La-Quan Armstead, Arnand Vijay Shegog (11 other photos not yet available)/Photo: MDOC, Panola County Sheriff’s Department


    What they haven’t been charged with, however, are crimes related to the burning death of Jessica Chambers, who was killed Dec. 6, 2014. Chambers was last seen on surveillance video leaving a convenience store. She was set on fire while she sat in her car by a gate to private land. She then stepped out of her car and authorities later found her smoldering body on the road, covered in burns. She was pronounced dead at a hospital in Memphis a short time later.

    Panola County Sheriff Dennis Darby said to the Clarion-Ledger that investigators looking into Chambers’ murder came across information during their interviews of more than 150 people and research of 20,000 phone records that led them to the arrests. The suspects were taken into custody in an hours-long sweep, the paper reported.

    “Police investigating potential witnesses then charging them with a crime is a standard technique for breaking big cases that are about to go cold,” Colin Flaherty, author of “White Girl Bleed A Lot,” told WND. “That is clearly what is happening here. Using Jessica’s phone and social media accounts, detectives were able to recreate a large portion of her life, and who was in it. That is how they found the 17 people connected to Jessica. And why they are now charged with serious crimes.”

    FBI spokesman Jason Pack said as the FBI assisted state and local investigators, suspected illegal activity came to light and resulted in the indictments and arrests Tuesday morning.

    FBI agents targeted suspected members of the Black Gangster Disciples, Vice Lords, and Sipp Mob street gangs after gathering intelligence on their suspected criminal activity from local law enforcement and community members weary of the violence in their neighborhoods, reported the paper.

    Authorities have struggled to identify any suspects in Chambers’ murder because of a “marked lack of street chatter” about the crime, “causing much of the investigation to hinge on data collection,” the Clarion-Ledger said, citing law enforcement.
    Investigators with the local sheriff’s office, as well as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the state’s Bureau of Investigation, are continuing to seek information about the death of Chambers.

    “Many cities across the country have success pooling resources with Federal and State agencies to fight and control gangs and gang-related violence,” said Donald Alway, special agent in charge of the FBI in Mississippi. “It’s our intent that this operation will be the start of that here in Panola and surrounding counties.”


    Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/fbi-busts...OFGHp7mMiE5.99

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    Oh my God.

    That poor dear sweet beautiful girl.

    Horrible.
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    Quinton Tellis indicted in Jessica Chambers homicide


    Clarion-Ledger Breaking News Reporter Therese Apel discusses the investigation into the brutal death of Courtland, Mississippi resident, Jessica Chambers.Dustin Barnes/The Clarion-Ledger



    Therese Apel, The Clarion-Ledger9:34 p.m. CST February 23, 2016

    (Photo: Ouachita Parish Sheriff)

    A Panola County native suspected in another homicide has been indicted in the December 2014 burning death of Courtland teen Jessica Chambers.

    Quinton Tellis, 27, originally of Courtland, was indicted on capital murder charges by a special grand jury in Panola County as he sat in the Ouachita Parish Jail in Monroe, Louisiana, where he is being held on charges connected to the August death of a University of Louisiana Monroe exchange student.

    Tellis is believed to have been the last person to have been with Chambers the night she was killed. The two allegedly had a relationship in the weeks leading up to her death, officials said.

    While Chambers and Tellis were eight years apart in age, they both went to South Panola High School and both grew up in the same neighborhood.

    A press conference in Panola County is planned for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.

    Tellis was living in Monroe with his new wife when he was arrested by Monroe Police Department and charged with crimes connected to the stabbing death of Meing-Chen Hsiao, 34, of Taiwan. Local media reports say she had been missing for more than a week when her body was found Aug. 8. She had been stabbed to death in her apartment.

    Police said Hsiao's homicide appeared to be very personal.

    Tellis has not been charged with Hsiao's murder, but according to jail records, he has been charged with three counts of unauthorized use of an access card and one count of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.

    The police report says Tellis allegedly used a Chase Bank debit card belonging to Hsiao on Aug. 7 at around 11 p.m. On that transaction, he charged $.07. When it was used again on Aug. 18, it was allegedly used at 10:35 p.m. for $500 and again at 3:04 a.m. for another $500. Police said there were ATM surveillance photos of Tellis using the card, and after being Mirandized, he allegedly admitted to using the debit card on all three occasions.

    During a search at his house, authorities found a quarter pound of marijuana in a bedroom. The report says the drugs were packaged for sale.

    According to Tellis' Facebook page, he married his fiancee on or around Aug. 8, the day Hsiao's body was found.

    Tellis has served time for residential burglary and fleeing law enforcement charges out of Panola County.

    MDOC records show Tellis was sentenced in January 2010 for residential burglary and fleeing a law enforcement officer. He received five years for the burglary conviction and five years' probation for the other crime. He was released on probation that August, but it was subsequently revoked. He was sentenced again in December 2011 for residential burglary and received four years.

    Tellis was also sentenced in February 2012 for residential burglary and received three years to serve and five years' probation. He was released on probation again in October 2014 and subsequently absconded supervision in August 2015.
    In May 2011, Tellis had a case for simple assault and domestic violence-simple dismissed after affiants Laketer Harrell and Mary Evans failed to appear to prosecute. He had pleaded not guilty to charges of disturbance of a family, records show.
    Later that summer, in July, Tellis was referred to a grand jury for burglary and grand larceny.

    While Tellis was incarcerated, MDOC records show various violations, including refusing to work, and staff said he made threatening statements toward them in 2014.

    He also received three rules violations while housed at Walnut Grove Correctional Facility: Being in a restricted or unauthorized area, disruptive behavior or disorderly conduct, and abusive, disrespectful language.

    When he was booked in January 2012 after his probation was revoked, he was caught with two cellphone chargers in June 2013 while housed at Holmes County Correctional Facility.

    In September 2013 Tellis was caught with a Green Dot number while housed at Parchman.

    http://www.clarionledger.com/story/n...case/80825562/

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    He continued as he held back tears, "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."
    The death penalty in both Mississippi and Louisiana is lethal injection. Both states did away with the electric chair and hanging some time ago.....

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