Mississippi cheerleader Jessica Chambers found on fire next to her burning car

SHE was a blonde Mississippi teen cheerleader who went to get her car cleaned at the weekend. Hours later, she was found in agony on the side of a road — her face and body on fire.

Police now hope her final words will help lead to her killer.

The death of the 19-year-old Panola County woman has set the town of Courtland on edge.

Police say they received a call from a member of the public about 8pm Saturday, reporting a car on fire.

When police and fire services arrived, Jessica Chambers was found — alight — stumbling along the side of the road near her buing car.

The young woman — who worked at a department store and had cheered for a local high school — was rushed to a Memphis hospital where she later died from the bus which covered 98 per cent of her body.

But, according to her father, the terribly injured teen tried hard to tell police who had squirted cigarette lighter fluid down her throat and over her face before setting her alight.

“They said that as far as they could tell like they squirted fluid down her throat and up her nose because it just bued her on the inside so bad,” Ben Chambers told local media. “She had a big gash in her head like they knocked her out.

“It’s hard for me to talk,” he said. “It’s hard to breathe. You don’t even think about —

“She told them, she told them, told him who done it.”

Mississippi police have collected Jessica’s phone records and social media accounts, and are canvassing witnesses. Police have so far refused to detail what information they have gleaned, but say they hope it will lead them to the killer.

Of key interest are two men Jessica may have gone to see after she told her mother she was going for a drive.

“They have ripped everything I have,” Jessica’s mother, Lisa Chambers, told WDBD-TV. “She left to go clean out her car and was going to get [herself] something to eat.”

“[She] said ‘Bye, I love you, Mama. See you in a little while.’ Next time I seen her, she was in the Med.”

Jessica is the second child the family has lost: Their son died in a car accident.

“She was the most beautiful and loving and kind girl I’ve ever known,” Jessica’ best friend, Alyssa Cotten, told FoxNews.com.

“She loved to cheer. She loved softball. She loved her family and her friends. She was just a big bundle of joy,” said Cotten, stating that she did not believe Chambers was dating anyone at the time she was killed.

Ben Chambers, who works as a mechanic at the local police station, says he does not know how he will make it through the coming holidays without his daughter.

“I’ll never have it back you know because of some evil person,” he told local TV.

“God’s punishment is going to be far more worse than anything that we can do,” the mother said.