Two teenage girls found dead after their car flipped in the woods traveling home from homecoming

Two teenage girls have been killed after their car flipped over as they were driving home from a homecoming dance in Mississippi.

Baleigh Bowlin and Chloe Taylor went missing following East Central’s homecoming on Saturday night.

The pair were later discovered by family and friends who raised the alarm after they never arrived back.

One of the girls’ uncles found the vehicle they were traveling in overturned in woods off the side of the road in thick brush. 

Chloe Taylor, left, and Baleigh Bowlin, right, both 16, were killed when their car flipped

The pair were best friends with dozens of photos of them pictured alongside one another

Devastated classmates were seen standing in quiet reflection at the side of the road  

Friends and Family gathered today at the site to put crosses and to lay out beautiful flowers and handmade gifts in tribute to the girls

The car was found just a few miles from their home. It was unable to be seen from the highway. Some suggested the car looked as though it had flipped several times. 

The girls were found still buckled into their seats.

Jackson County Coroner Bruce Lynd Jr. pronounced both teens dead at the scene just after 5pm Sunday.

They both died of blunt force trauma. The car flipped into the woods and couldn’t be seen from the roadway, Lynd said. 

Taylor and Bowlin were last seen at a Waffle House together with other students around 5:30am on Sunday morning, reports NBC 15. 

‘I’m the one that found my Niece Chloe Taylor & Baleigh Bowlin yesterday!!! I’m the one that walked into the woods to discover their fate!!!’ uncle Robbie Taylor posted on his Facebook page. 

The two girls are pictured alongside their classmates before Saturday’s homecoming dance

Bayleigh Bowlin is pictured here. The 16-year-old girl was best friends with Chloe Taylor

‘I’m the one that was onside of the road begging & pleading for cars to stop because of what I just saw had me shaken up so bad that I couldn’t even talk!!!  WHY ME GOD? WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE ME THAT FOUND THEM?’ he wrote.

‘They were best friends,’ Chloe Taylor’s mother, Natalie Mann-Taylor said to the Sun Herald. ‘Glued to the hip. They loved each other and were always there for one another Baleigh and Chloe were the definitions of high-quality friends. They both are flying and will always be in our hearts.’

‘My heart., my world, my best friend was taken from me yesterday,’ Mann-Taylor wrote in a Facebook post. ‘It doesn’t seem real. I’m praying I wake up from this nightmare and she walks through those doors. Why was my baby taken from me? Why her? I never expected as a parent I would have to go through this much heartache.’

The car Chloe had been traveling in appeared to have flipped several times

Both Chloe and Bayleigh, pictured, were found still strapped into their seats

‘Please be in prayer today as we mourn the loss of two students. Please pray for guidance as we navigate these tragedies with our students, faculty, and community,’ East Central High School, where Taylor and Bowlin were juniors, wrote on its Facebook.

East Central High Principal Jim Hughey said extra school counselors and youth pastors were at the school gym Monday morning to offer support for any students who needed help.

‘They were outstanding students,’ Hughey said of Baleigh and Chloe. ‘Our community is going to be mourning the loss of them for a while.’

‘I just notice a numbness right now, and it’s hard to describe. It may be part of my perception as how I’m feeling as well, but I’m observing very closely what’s happening on campus,’ superintendent John Strycker said.

Mississippi Highway Patrol is handling the investigation with toxicology tests to be performed on the two teens in the coming days. 

A GoFundMe page has been set up to raise money for funeral expenses.