UPDATES WITH AUTOPSY RESULTS
(ROSEMONT) A 19-year-old Chicago woman was found dead in a hotel freezer early Sunday in northwest suburban Rosemont.
Kenneka L. Jenkins left her West Side home at 11:30 p.m. Friday to go to a party at the Crowne Plaza hotel in the 5400 block of North River Road in Rosemont, according to Rosemont police.
Jenkins’s sister last heard from her via text message about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, police said.
Jenkins was last seen at a party on the 9th floor of the hotel in the early hours of Saturday, police said. She was reported missing at 1:16 p.m. Saturday.
Rosemont police contacted the hotel and made them aware of the missing person complaint, police said.
Hotel staff and management searched the hotel and discovered Jenkins inside a freezer at 12:24 a.m. Sunday, police said.
She was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy Sunday did not rule on her cause and manner of death pending further investigation.
Rosemont police are investigating.