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Police are investigating a Facebook Live video that appears to show Kenneka Jenkins, the Chicago teen found dead inside a walk-in freezer, in a hotel room with a group of people before she went missing.

In the footage, a woman wearing mirrored sunglasses is seen smoking and talking to the camera. The other side of the hotel room can be seen in the girl's glasses. In the background a woman who looks like Kenneka appears to be sitting on a bed.

The video was been viewed millions of times and shared on social media. Most of the commenters believe some form of foul play happened in the room, but police have yet to confirm this.

Rosemont Police Department spokesman Gary Mack told the Chicago Tribunethat investigators are reviewing the video and they have identified most of the people seen in the footage.

"Yes, they've looked at it and continue to look at it and all the other social media videos and posts," Mack said "They are leaving no stone unturned as far as trying to corral everyone they can and talk to them and interview them about what happened and what was going on that night."


http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...shows-kenneka-jenkins-hotel-article-1.3489438
 
I think This group is guilty as hell. They called the mom on this dead girls cell phone from HER car to tell her mom she was missing after they left the hotel!! Makes no sense. And the mom said she then called police, she was upset they didn't start searching that second. But police typically do not investigate missing adults in situations like this until there is prob cause to believe a crime has taken place or time has gone by. So I understand the police waiting till the next day. They have so many crimes and murders in Chicago to investigate.

The family should have headed over immediately to the hotel

Something is def off with this group of "friends" she was out with, hear their stories keep changing. They don't seem like the kind of people I'd want my daughter hanging out with. Several people on Twitter and Facebook have said several are involved in gangs and prostitution...It will be no time till they all start flipping. Especially when the autopsy Is finished.


Yes The mom seemed pretty calm for just hearing about her daughter dying. But everyone handles life tragedies different. I hope she finds answers soon so she can grieve and start healing. If they did mirder this beautiful young girl, I pray justice will be served.
only 19 years old, had her whole life ahead of her. It's so important for young adults to not get caught up with the wrong people. Fucking scary having a young kid knowing they are Growing up in these times.
 
https://sotomayortv.com/kennekajenkinsdeath/
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According to family members and police, 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins left her home on the Near West Side for a party on the ninth floor of the hotel around 11:30 p.m., and was later seen at the party in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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Her mother, Tereasa Martin, said she received a call around 4:30 a.m. Saturday from friends who said they couldn’t find Jenkins after the party. Martin said she immediately went to the hotel and asked them to check surveillance footage to see if they could locate her daughter.

After the hotel referred her to police, Martin said she called 911, and dispatchers told her to wait a few more hours because Jenkins could be out with friends.

“We were begging for help, and no one was helping,” Jenkins said.

Martin and her older daughter, Leonore Harris, went door to door at the hotel looking for Kenneka. The hotel called police on them for disturbing the peace.

Harris filed a missing person report with the Rosemont Police Saturday afternoon.

Rosemont police said after the report was filed, the hotel “actively canvassed and searched the immediate area.”

Jenkins’ body was discovered in a walk-in freezer in the hotel around 12:24 a.m. Sunday,[....]

Martin said police told her Jenkins apparently let herself into the walk-in cooler and then died inside.

“She was so drunk–that was his exact words–she was so drunk she couldn’t hold herself up. She was holding on to the wall,” Martin said.

However, she said she wasn’t satisfied with their version of events, because of safety features that make it possible to open coolers from the inside.

Martin said that if her daughter was drunk, she would have had difficulty opening the heavy freezer doors and would have realized she wasn’t entering an elevator or the hotel entrance.

“The freezer door is heavy. So there’s no way. If they’re saying she’s drunk, she don’t have no strength. If she had enough strength to open that freezer door, she would have had enough strength to walk straight,” Harris said.

“I believe someone in this hotel killed my child,” Martin said.

She says that at the very least, if staff had helped her sooner, perhaps Jenkins would still be alive.
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I am very much at a loss for words. Every time I want to say something I am just amazed by the police and her friends and what happened to this young girl.

About the video why does a father matter a girl is dead.
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Shitcago teen found...

The title.
Tommy is never gonna learn he was just punched in the face in Harlem.
 
09/14/17

A Chicago community activist said Thursday that surveillance video from a Rosemont hotel shows Kenneka Jenkins entering a walk-in freezer alone.

Andrew Holmes, who has worked with many police agencies during his years of anti-violence activism, told the Tribune that Rosemont detectives showed him the video Wednesday when he showed up seeking answers on behalf of the family.

He said the video shows Jenkins, 19, waiting in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel after her friends apparently went up to the room in which they had been partying to retrieve some possessions. Jenkins then takes the elevator to a lower level and wanders around, opening doors in an apparently disoriented manner, he said.

Finally, he said, Jenkins opens two doors in a kitchen area and enters the walk-in freezer. The doors close behind her and Jenkins is seen no more, he said.

Holmes said he was convinced no one else forced Jenkins into the area where she died. But he said the family is awaiting toxicology tests to see whether narcotics had been put into her drink.

"The important part is we all wanted to know: Did anybody call her down there?" he said. "Did anybody force her down there? Was there anybody on the other side of the room when she got down there? And the answer to that is no."

Holmes' account undercuts online speculation in recent days that the Chicago teen was murdered. He said the circulating theories are "just something they made up on social media," and urged people with hard information to call authorities.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.chic...zer-death-update-0915-20170914-story,amp.html
 
Family still seems to be in a bit of denial. Toxicology tests will show if there were narcotics in her system. They're not going to prove whether she ingested them willingly or if something was put in her drink.

I understand the desire to not want to accept that perhaps your daughter was intoxicated and died due to a very bad series of decisions... but sometimes that's what the truth is. No more, no less.
 
her mon just is in denial's a sad case but this girl like many of us at that age made some bad decisions, myself thinking she even went to this party at the hotel, but unless forced if someone drinks or gets so stoned they do something that gets them hurt or killed and no one was around to try and help them that is it. I don't know about the laws up there or age limits but the hotel was running a loose ship to let those kids party in there like that imo
 
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That area that was under construction SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ACCESSIBLE IN ANY WAY to the public. Drunk or not, she should never have been able to get into that freezer. Was it just kept on to prevent mold or something if it wasn't in use? I'd like to have that cleared up as well.

Her "friends" were probably just as fucked up as she was, so maybe that accounts for their own poor judgement in not watching over her. It really doesn't make sense at this point that the other girls went off together and left her on her own. I've been that girl a couple of times in my day and my friends never left me passed out anywhere or let me wander off to parts unknown.
 
i still don't believe she walked in there without some kind of encouragement. whether it was from her friends, or the drugs she took, no person who is ONLY drinking is gonna do that shit. i've been shit faced many many times. never said, hmmmm lemme go sleep in the fridge.
 
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@brandi you know... You just made me think of something.

No way to know until the tox reports come back, but what if she was on something that raised her body temperature? Like ecstasy. Maybe she wanted to just cool off, but ended up either unable to get herself back out, or relaxed/fell asleep until the cold took her out. :(
 
@brandi you know... You just made me think of something.

No way to know until the tox reports come back, but what if she was on something that raised her body temperature? Like ecstasy. Maybe she wanted to just cool off, but ended up either unable to get herself back out, or relaxed/fell asleep until the cold took her out. :(
THAT'S SO REAL.
 
I understand the desire to not want to accept that perhaps your daughter was intoxicated and died due to a very bad series of decisions... but sometimes that's what the truth is. No more, no less.

Fine ... but people were concerned for this girl and the Hotel didn't really help. In fact they did hinder her loved ones when they persisted in trying to find her. I can't help but think the same thing ... What if she could have been saved?
 
well, my call was bad but them bitches at the hotel shoulda turned the videos over to the family to view & the cops immediately. I still think the "friends" weren't much friends at all but she staggered around by her self and walked in by herslef
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...freezer-death-update-0915-20170914-story.html

Honestly, this unfortunate story is something that teens and young adults need to hear about. I remember going to clubs with my friends and always being aware of where they were and what was going on. We were at the Tunnel in New York and Biggie was performing and a fight broke out I grabbed my girl and got the hell out of there. Another time like a dumb ass I went with my friend who met a guy to Central Park in the Middle of the night. What occurred that night I will never forget and the friend I was stuck with for my best friend.
 
The police said its an accident. Its how long it took to find her is what bugs me.
The police aint always right either. The hotel posted a video showing that its impossible to close the freezee if you're on the inside. I'll post it.
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@Caligirl90, I'm not sure what time frame you're talking about, here, but depending on what the freezer was set at, this girl was most likely dead inside of two hours.
From the timeline I've seen the mom called the hotel under an hour after she was last seen. She then called the police right after as the hotel told her they wouldn't look for Kenneka. Then, the police made her wait a few hours to file a police report. I was saying wouldn't it be a shame if it came out during all that time they could have saved her if they had at least started to look right away. Also, I was thinking the freezer wouldn't be kept completely to temp because it wasn't in use. I also wonder why it took so long to check that area. If the rest of the hotel was active with staff and no one saw her, I would think checking an area that wasn't in use but had dangers would be a good business decision at the very least.
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The police aint always right either. The hotel posted a video showing that its impossible to close the freezee if you're on the inside. I'll post it.
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That's assuming she opened the freezer all the way. Had she just opened it enough to squeeze in, it WILL close behind you. I've used those freezers, unless you open the door all the way, they are heavy and will close themselves.
 
The death of Kenneka Jenkins, a 19-year-old woman whose body was found in a walk-in freezer at a Chicago area hotel last month, has been ruled an accident, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

The teen’s cause of death was hypothermia due to cold exposure, with alcohol and topiramate intoxication as “significant” contributing factors, the office said in a statement Friday. Topiramate is a medication used to treat epilepsy and migraines; her family said Jenkins was not prescribed the drug, according to the office.

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An autopsy conducted later that day found mucosal erosions, or Wischnevsky’s lesions, in Jenkins’s stomach, indicative of hypothermia. There was an abrasion on the teen’s right ankle and a purple contusion on her right leg, but no other evidence of external or internal trauma, the office said. Jenkins’s brain was swollen, but it did not indicate a specific cause of death, the office added.

Toxicology tests found alcohol, caffeine and the topiramate in Jenkins’s system — but no “date rape drugs,” the office said. It’s likely the alcohol and topiramate exacerbated each other’s effects and possibly brought on death more quickly.

“Alcohol and topiramate are synergistic. When combined, the effect of either or both drugs is enhanced,” the office said. “Topiramate, like alcohol, can cause dizziness, impaired memory, impaired concentration, poor coordination, confusion and impaired judgment. Central nervous system depression, or impairment, combined with cold exposure can hasten the onset of hypothermia and death,” the office said.

Although Jenkins did not have a prescription for topiramate, police said, there was no evidence Jenkins was forced to consume either the drug or the alcohol, according to the examiner’s office.

“There is no evidence of another person in the vicinity of the kitchen with the decedent and there is no evidence of an altercation or interaction with another individual in the time immediately prior to demise,” the office said.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ay-it-was-an-accident/?utm_term=.4f9769f77a75
It appears the young Kenneka might just have made a series of very stupid, drunken and fatal mistakes.
 
I think the family has a hell of a wrongful death suit against the hotel.

Really? There is a fuck ton of contributory negligence here. She got wasted, stumbled around and into a walk-in freezer and then was too wasted to let herself out (every walk-in freezer I have seen has an exit latch, I'm sure it's regulated).

Sure, you can argue the hotel should have had the kitchen area inaccessible to hotel guests but what level would you set her contributory negligence at? I'd say 90% easy.

As for the hotel not searching for her, give me a break.

"Oh hey we were partying and now we're leaving and we can't find Sara. Can you search your entire hotel in the middle of the night for our friend?"

We aren't talking about someone with alzheimer's or a child, we are talking about a healthy adult. How about a little personal responsibility here.
 
We aren't talking about someone with alzheimer's or a child, we are talking about a healthy adult. How about a little personal responsibility here.

Couldn't agree more. Maybe mom should be more worried about why she let her underage child party in a hotel with shitty 'friends', while dressed like a prostitute.

And of course she blames the cops, they raycisss! Nah lady, your kid was dumb trash.
 
The police aint always right either. The hotel posted a video showing that its impossible to close the freezee if you're on the inside. I'll post it.
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I dont understand this video. The employee sticks her hand out a mere few inches and deliberately and inexplicably doesnt even attempt to grab the door. What does this prove, other then the person in the vid is a fucking moron?
 
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