“Brutal, heinous, vicious, gruesome, monstrous and disturbing.”

Those are the opening words Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook used to describe the killing of a 13-year-old Ka’Niyah Baker, whose body was found on Jan. 15 in an abandoned South Carolina house. Police arrested and charged two girls, aged 15 and 16, with murder in the homicide case.

Baker’s body was found 20 miles away from where she was previously reported missing from foster care, according to comments Holbrook made in a Jan. 18 press conference. Baker suffered traumatic injuries and was severely burned to the point visual identification was not possible, according to Holbrook and Richland County Coroner Naida Rutherford. Rutherford said the coroner’s office used clothing and dental records to extract DNA and confirm Baker’s identity.