Seven people have been arrested in the torturous murder of a Jasper, Ala., woman deemed so grisly the police have declined to release certain details in deference to her family.
Mahogany Jaquise Jackson’s body was found around 2:19 a.m. local time Monday, after someone called about a woman laying on the side of the road, per a Birmingham Police Department press release.
The 20-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene from an apparent gunshot wound.
“The facts of this case are deplorable and sickening,” Police Chief Scott Thurmond said at a  Wednesday, noting that Mahogany had been sexually assaulted during her kidnapping.
In the hours before her death, Mahogany texted her mother for help, saying she had been kidnapped, Sergeant LaQuitta Wade of the Birmingham Police Department tells PEOPLE.
Send the police apt 3 held hostage don’t call,” Mahogany texted her mother Sunday.
