Jessica Chambers' mother hopes that the man accused of burning her 19-year-old daughter alive is held accountable during his retrial
A devastated mother recalled the tragic moment she comforted her 19-year-old daughter after she was doused with gasoline and set on fire four years ago, causing her to succumb to her injuries. “I felt that she hung on long enough to know that she could hear one of our voices,” Lisa Daugherty told People. “And as soon as she did, and I told her that it was okay, she passed away. Remembering the tragic day when her daughter, a high school cheerleader, Jessica Chambers, died, Lisa added, “I know that there was nothing they could do to save her.”
The December 6, 2014, incident on a rural roadside in tiny Courtland, Mississippi, garnered national attention at the time. Young Chambers later died at a hospital with 98% burns. The intensity of the fire was such that according to Daugherty, her daughter's contact lenses were seared into her eyes and the car in which she was in turned white from black.