However, the uncanniness of the incident from 2017 has attracted MTV to now cover Jenkin's death in its long-running 'True Life' franchise.īefore the teen met her tragic end, Jenkins had been celebrating with friends at a party that took place in Room 926 of the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont, on September 8, 2017, when her friends began noticing strange behavior. No external or internal trauma as well as “hundreds of drugs of abuse, medications and other chemical compounds” - along with date-rape drugs - were found on Jenkins’ body, the coroner said.Close to three years after 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins was found dead inside a walk-in freezer at a Chicago hotel, an air of mystery continues to shroud her demise. Central nervous system depression, or impairment, combined with cold exposure can hasten the onset of hypothermia and death,” the office said in a released. Topiramate, like alcohol, can cause dizziness, impaired memory, impaired concentration, poor coordination, confusion and impaired judgment.
“When combined, the effect of either or both drugs is enhanced. The medical examiner explained that levels of alcohol higher than the driving limit and topiramate, a drug most commonly used to treat epilepsy and migraines, were also contributing factors. Her cause of death was hypothermia, the coroner said. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office had recently classified Jenkins’ death as accidental. “He did not get close to the freezer and was never out of sight of the camera,” Stephens said. Since Jenkins entered the kitchen until her body was discovered only a security guard was seen entering the area. There is only one entrance into the kitchen and anyone who would have walked toward the freezer would have activated a surveillance camera there, Stephens said. Police don’t believe anyone else came in contact with Jenkins after she entered the kitchen. but does not show her entering the cooler and freezer, where she was found nearly 24 hours later, because no cameras show the doors directly. The footage showed Jenkins entering a kitchen at approximately 3:32 a.m. She appears to be steady.īut when Jenkins is next sighted exiting an elevator at 3:25 a.m., she is alone and visibly impaired, and staggers out of the elevator, briefly leaning on the wall for support before heading down the hallway. In the footage, Jenkins is first seen walking through the hotel with several unidentified people around 1:13 a.m. Surveillance video from inside the Crowne Plaza, released by the Rosemont Public Safety Department, showed Jenkins staggering through the hotel’s hallways before she disappeared. Jenkins are especially sad,” the police chief said. “The death of any child is tragic but the death and circumstances surrounding Ms. Stephens said Friday that “none were supported by facts.” Jenkins’ death sparked accusations on social media of foul play.
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On Friday, police released audio recordings, hours of video surveillance footage and a series of graphic photos showing Jenkins’ body on the floor inside the freezer.Īn attorney for Jenkins’ family said the photos were disturbing and raised more question about what happened that night, CNN affiliate WBBM-TV reported. “There is no evidence that indicates any other conclusion,” Stephens said. Investigators concluded Jenkin’s death was accidental after retracing her path to the cooler that contained the freezer where her body was found, reviewing hours of surveillance video and interviewing most of the people that were at the party that night. RELATED: Death of teen found in hotel freezer ruled an accident.RELATED: Police release surveillance video of Chicago teen found dead in hotel freezer.Jenkins was forced to drink alcohol or consume any narcotics while at the hotel.” Stephens III with the Rosemont Police Department said in a statement. “Our detectives reported no signs of foul play throughout the whole investigation,” Chief Donald E. Police in Rosemont, a suburb northwest of Chicago, had been investigating the death of 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins since her body was found September 10 after she attended a party at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel.
Authorities have closed the investigation into the death of a young Chicago woman whose body was found in a hotel’s walk-in freezer, saying it was accidental and there was no reason to suspect foul play.
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