12-12-2014, 11:41 AM
WHAT WE KNOW NOW
Trying to weed out the verified facts from the speculation and hearsay.
This is a partial time line based on information that's been reported and verified by surveillance video and LE/fire reports.
Sat, Dec. 6th 2014
Morning to early evening: Jessica sleeps in after working a Friday night shift at Goody's Dept Store in Batesville; she lounges at home all day (lives with mom).
About 6:00 p.m. -- Jessica receives a phone call (caller not yet identified). Then, she leaves the house in pajama bottoms, dark sweatshirt, hair in a bun; tells mom she's going to get something to eat, get gas, and go wash her car in nearby Batesville.
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^ About 6:30 p.m. -- Jessica is seen on surveillance video at McCullar's First Stop on Mississippi 51 (pic above). It's a gas station with mini-mart. Jessica prepays $14, gets a phone call (according to the clerk), and gasses up her car. She sees someone outside surveillance camera view, waves, and walks off camera. She pumps gas and then goes back into the mini-mart and buys cigarettes (family says Jessica doesn't smoke).
About 7:00 p.m. -- Jessica talks to her mom on the phone; tells mom she's going to get her car washed in Bastesville and will come home to clean her room.
Between 6:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. (exact time unknown/not released) -- Jessica is seen by witnesses at a party.*
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^ About 8:00 p.m. -- a 911 call is placed by someone reporting a car on fire up a small embankment on Highway 51 (pic above), Herron Road, in Courtland, MS. The car is about 1 mile south of McCullar's First Stop.
About 8:05 p.m. -- Courtland Fire Dept personnel arrive at the scene (they'd been at a nearby scene and got there quickly). They expect to put out a car fire but instead find Jessica Chambers near the burning car and render aid. She is severely burned and tells Fire Chief Cole Haley something -- he won't reveal details at this time.
Jessica's cell phone is found near the burn site with its battery removed.
Jessica Chambers is rushed to a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. She is burned over 90% of her body and dies on Sunday morning. Whether she's able to tell LE anything of value is not yet known -- LE says they got a lead from Jessica, but won't reveal details at this time.
Monday, Dec. 8th
Thirty-one-year-old Derrick Turner says he was picked up Monday morning and was taken to the Panola County jail where he was questioned in the death of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers.
Wednesday, Dec. 10th
Derrick Turner is released from jail. Turner says he knows Chambers from around, but he wasn't involved with her and wasn't sleeping with her or anything like that. He says she carried herself like a sweet girl and that police didn't tell him why they were questioning him in relation to her death.
Police and family ask the public for help; call in tips.
Thursday, Dec. 11th
*District Attorney Champion confirms that witnesses saw Jessica at a party on Saturday night ( http://ktla.com/2014/12/11/mississippi-t...illed-her/ ) and that LE has secured warrants for Jessica's cell phone/Google records. He says there are no suspects and investigation could take 5 days, 5 months or 5 years...
Inconsistent accounts abound...
-Jessica's dad says Jessica was walking on fire when found and told first responder the name of her killer who'd poured accelerant down her nose and mouth and set her on fire; first responders say Jessica was not on fire and was severely burned and laying near her car -- fire chief will only say he spoke to Jessica.
-Jessica's mom says she told LE the names of a few people before she died; LE will not confirm.
-District Attorney Champion says it's unclear if Jessica was dosed with accelerant or not -- pending investigation.
-Champion says there is very little talk on the street about the death, but LE reports that there are a lot rumors circulating in the 420-person town of Courtland.
- Jessica's family says she doesn't have a boyfriend and isn't known to be seeing anybody, that she has no known enemies or anyone that doesn't love Jessica; unconfirmed social media reports/rumors indicate she has an abusive, jealous, black ex-boyfriend.
Trying to weed out the verified facts from the speculation and hearsay.
This is a partial time line based on information that's been reported and verified by surveillance video and LE/fire reports.
Sat, Dec. 6th 2014
Morning to early evening: Jessica sleeps in after working a Friday night shift at Goody's Dept Store in Batesville; she lounges at home all day (lives with mom).
About 6:00 p.m. -- Jessica receives a phone call (caller not yet identified). Then, she leaves the house in pajama bottoms, dark sweatshirt, hair in a bun; tells mom she's going to get something to eat, get gas, and go wash her car in nearby Batesville.
^ About 6:30 p.m. -- Jessica is seen on surveillance video at McCullar's First Stop on Mississippi 51 (pic above). It's a gas station with mini-mart. Jessica prepays $14, gets a phone call (according to the clerk), and gasses up her car. She sees someone outside surveillance camera view, waves, and walks off camera. She pumps gas and then goes back into the mini-mart and buys cigarettes (family says Jessica doesn't smoke).
About 7:00 p.m. -- Jessica talks to her mom on the phone; tells mom she's going to get her car washed in Bastesville and will come home to clean her room.
Between 6:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. (exact time unknown/not released) -- Jessica is seen by witnesses at a party.*
^ About 8:00 p.m. -- a 911 call is placed by someone reporting a car on fire up a small embankment on Highway 51 (pic above), Herron Road, in Courtland, MS. The car is about 1 mile south of McCullar's First Stop.
About 8:05 p.m. -- Courtland Fire Dept personnel arrive at the scene (they'd been at a nearby scene and got there quickly). They expect to put out a car fire but instead find Jessica Chambers near the burning car and render aid. She is severely burned and tells Fire Chief Cole Haley something -- he won't reveal details at this time.
Jessica's cell phone is found near the burn site with its battery removed.
Jessica Chambers is rushed to a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. She is burned over 90% of her body and dies on Sunday morning. Whether she's able to tell LE anything of value is not yet known -- LE says they got a lead from Jessica, but won't reveal details at this time.
Monday, Dec. 8th
Thirty-one-year-old Derrick Turner says he was picked up Monday morning and was taken to the Panola County jail where he was questioned in the death of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers.
Wednesday, Dec. 10th
Derrick Turner is released from jail. Turner says he knows Chambers from around, but he wasn't involved with her and wasn't sleeping with her or anything like that. He says she carried herself like a sweet girl and that police didn't tell him why they were questioning him in relation to her death.
Police and family ask the public for help; call in tips.
Thursday, Dec. 11th
*District Attorney Champion confirms that witnesses saw Jessica at a party on Saturday night ( http://ktla.com/2014/12/11/mississippi-t...illed-her/ ) and that LE has secured warrants for Jessica's cell phone/Google records. He says there are no suspects and investigation could take 5 days, 5 months or 5 years...
Inconsistent accounts abound...
-Jessica's dad says Jessica was walking on fire when found and told first responder the name of her killer who'd poured accelerant down her nose and mouth and set her on fire; first responders say Jessica was not on fire and was severely burned and laying near her car -- fire chief will only say he spoke to Jessica.
-Jessica's mom says she told LE the names of a few people before she died; LE will not confirm.
-District Attorney Champion says it's unclear if Jessica was dosed with accelerant or not -- pending investigation.
-Champion says there is very little talk on the street about the death, but LE reports that there are a lot rumors circulating in the 420-person town of Courtland.
- Jessica's family says she doesn't have a boyfriend and isn't known to be seeing anybody, that she has no known enemies or anyone that doesn't love Jessica; unconfirmed social media reports/rumors indicate she has an abusive, jealous, black ex-boyfriend.