legal settlement<\/a> amounting to $10 million.<\/p>\nThe incident occurred in September 2017 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in suburban Rosemont, where the lifeless body of the victim, Kenneka Jenkins, was discovered in a walk-in freezer a day after attending a party. The Cook County medical examiner\u2019s office determined her cause of death as hypothermia.<\/p>\n
The examination revealed that alcohol intoxication and the use of a medication for epilepsy and migraines were notable contributing factors to her death. Police-released surveillance videos depicted Jenkins roaming alone through a kitchen area near the freezer at approximately 3:30 a.m. on the day of her disappearance.<\/p>\n
In December 2018, her mother, Tereasa Martin, initiated a lawsuit alleging negligence on the part of the hotel, a security company, and a restaurant leasing the freezer. The accusation pointed to their failure to secure the freezer and conduct a thorough search following Jenkins\u2019 disappearance. Initially seeking over $50 million in damages, the lawsuit contended that friends informed Martin around 4 a.m. that Jenkins was missing, prompting a call to the hotel. The lawsuit claimed the hotel assured a review of surveillance footage, but Jenkins’ body remained undiscovered for more than 21 hours after she was believed to have entered the freezer.<\/p>\n
The legal action argued that had the hotel properly monitored security cameras, Jenkins would still be alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The family of a Chicago 19-year-old woman who froze to death after being accidentally locked in a hotel freezer has reached a legal settlement amounting to $10 million. The incident occurred in September 2017 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in suburban Rosemont, where the lifeless body of the victim, Kenneka Jenkins, was discovered in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3507,"featured_media":193962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1,4533],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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