Drug Dealers and Killers Strike Again……Kenneka Jenkins, 19, was found dead in the freezer at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rosemont, Chicago, on early Sunday morning
Newly released surveillance video shows her stumbling around the hotel hallways and the kitchen hours before she died
It seems to disprove the social media speculation that foul play was involved
Her family’s attorney said the hotel never checked or searched for Jenkins
Authorities said they would release the full video footage to the public when the investigation is done
A Chicago activist revealed he saw the video before it was released to the public that shows Jenkins alone in the hotel hallway and kitchen
Kenneka was filmed by friends partying in the hotel room (L) and in an elevator (R) hours before she died
At 1am on Sunday, she was found dead in a freezer at the hotel (file above). Friends say they lost her after leaving her alone in a hallway momentarily. Holmes said: ‘It was just an accident waiting to happen’
Newly released surveillance video shows Kenneka Jenkins stumbling around the hallways and kitchen of the hotel where she was found dead inside of the walk-in freezer hours later.
It seems she was extremely high on drugs and stumbled into the freezer on her own. Prior it was questions about her being rapped and that friends paid $200 to have a night with her, but none of that is supported by the viedo footage.
Video shows the 19-year-old leaving the elevator alone at 3.20am then struggling to maintain balance as she navigates the hallways of The Crowne Plaza Hotel and Conference Center in Rosemont.
She was at the hotel the night of September 8th for a party with friends on the ninth floor. Jenkins was officially reported missing on Saturday at 1pm and found dead in the freezer early Sunday morning at 1am.
Though the footage doesn’t show the moment Jenkins enters the freezer, authorities believe she did when she walked out of the frame.
The footage appears to conflict with the social media speculation that there was foul play or that she was coerced into the freezer.
There will be 36 more hours of footage from that weekend released, police told the Chicago Tribune.
The teen’s family’s lawyer told the paper they will be seeking their own investigation and perhaps a second autopsy.
Attorney Larry Rogers said the hotel ‘never checked. They never searched, they never did anything while a young, 19-year-old disoriented girl was sitting in their freezer.’
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Kenneka Jenkins is seen struggling to maintain her balance in the hallway of the The Crowne Plaza Hotel and Conference Center in Rosemont
Jenkins, seen leaving the elevator, was at the hotel for a party on September 8 and was reported missing the next day
The video of Jenkins walking by herself into the kitchen appears to disprove the social media speculation that foul play was involved
Now there has to be an answer to how that happened. Better yet, there has to be an answer to why that happened.’
Her mother Tereasa Martin said: ‘To me, I feel like they helped kill my child: the police department and this hotel.’
In a 911 recording made after Kenneka vanished but before she was found, Martin tells a dispatcher that she fears her daughter has been drinking after speaking to her friends.
Martin said ‘one cup is too much for her’ and asks if detectives can get the hotel surveillance video. But the dispatcher tries to allay her concerns and assures her that Kenneka will probably turn up.
The family filed a missing persons report at 1.15pm, at which time the hotel searched for Kenneka but failed to find her. It was only after the teen’s parents went to the hotel herself at 6pm that staff phoned police, a second search was mounted and her body was found.
Andrew Holmes, who has worked in the community for decades fighting against violence, told the Chicago Tribune earlier that detectives in Rosemont allowed him to view the video on Wednesday when he went to seek answers on behalf of Jenkins‘ family.
‘We all was wondering and wanted to know did anybody pull her down there?’ Holmes told reporters Thursday.
‘Did anybody force her down there? Was anybody on the other side in that room when she got down there? And the answer to that is ‘no.’
Jenkins‘ body was discovered in the industrial, walk-in freezer at The Crowne Plaza Hotel and Conference Center in Rosemont, a suburb of Chicago, at 1am Sunday.
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She had gone missing around 24 hours earlier after partying with friends in one of the hotel’s rooms.
Viral Facebook videos of their antics around the time she vanished are being investigated by police alongside surveillance footage from 47 cameras inside the hotel.
Holmes said one of the surveillance videos shows the 19-year-old woman waiting in the lobby of the hotel after her friends reportedly went up to the room to retrieve items they left behind.
Police plan to show he woman’s mother, Tereasa Martin (above outsider her home), the same surveillance footage that Holmes viewed. Authorities say they will release it to the public once the investigation is complete
He said that the video shows Jenkins take an elevator to a lower level before she wanders around and opens doors appearing to be disoriented.
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He said that she opened two doors in a kitchen area and walked inside of the large freezer before the doors shut behind her.
‘It was just an accident waiting to happen,’ Holmes told the newspaper.
His account of what occurred differs from the social media speculation that the teen was murdered.
Holmes said that the theories circulating online about Jenkins are ‘just something they made up on social media.’
He urged people with hard information to call the police.
Rosemont police said they will show the full video to the woman’s mother before they release it to the public at the end of the investigation.
Martin said that she plans to view the video with her attorney Larry Rogers.
The Crowne Plaza Hotel also announced that they intend to cover the cost of the young woman’s funeral expenses.
A spokesman for the hotel said they extended the offer to the family that would also allow them to privately view 36 total hours of surveillance footage from 40 different cameras inside.
KENNEKA JENKINS DEATH: A TIMELINE
Friday 11.30pm: Kenneka goes to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rosemont with her friends
Saturday 1.30am: She sends her final text message
Saturday 1.36am: Kenneka’s friends appear in Facebook live video
Saturday 4.30am: Her friends call her family to report her missing
Saturday 1.18pm: Kenneka is reported missing
Saturday 1.56pm: Kenneka’s ‘best friend’ posts video which shows her at the hotel
Sunday 1am: Kenneka’s body is found inside hotel freezer
Sunday 2am: The same friend posts another video showing Kenneka in hotel elevator
Kenneka’s death has sparked shockwaves and is being pored over by millions on social media
