text: Video released by Rosemont police Friday depicts Kenneka Jenkins staggering alone through a deserted hotel kitchen and disappearing around a corner — the last time she's seen alive. 
   
   Though it doesn't capture her entering the walk-in freezer where her body was found, video taken by what appears to be a motion-activated camera shows that no one else came into that area until her body was found. 
   
   Village officials released the video after days of speculation about the death of the 19-year-old Chicago woman and pressure by community activists dissatisfied with the investigation. 
   
   Attorneys Larry Rogers Jr. and Sam Adam Jr., who represent Jenkins' family, said at a news conference Friday afternoon that they will conduct their own investigation and perhaps seek a second autopsy. 
   
   The hotel "never checked. They never searched, they never did anything while a young, 19-year-old disoriented girl was sitting in their freezer," Adam said. "Now there has to be an answer to how that happened. Better yet, there has to be an answer to why that happened." 
   
   On Friday afternoon, the village released six video clips from the early morning of Sept. 9, when Jenkins went missing. 
   
   The first two videos, from early Saturday, show Jenkins, her gait steady, walking with three others through a public part of the hotel. But in the next clip, about two hours later, she gets off an elevator alone, so unsteady she has to support herself on a wall. 
   
   Larry Rogers Jr. and Sam Adam Jr., attorneys for Kenneka Jenkins' mother, Tereasa Martin, said at a news conference Sept. 15, 2017, that they will conduct their own investigation and perhaps seek a second autopsy. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune) Larry Rogers Jr. and Sam Adam Jr., attorneys for Kenneka Jenkins' mother, Tereasa Martin, said at a news conference Sept. 15, 2017, that they will conduct their own investigation and perhaps seek a second autopsy. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune) SEE MORE VIDEOS 
   
   Two minutes later, in another clip, she reels down a hallway. Then she wanders around another passage, clearly disoriented. Finally, she totters through an empty kitchen, around a corner and out of sight. 
   
   The same surveillance camera, which appears to be motion-activated, next picks up activity at 8:34 p.m., when a person briefly enters the frame, looks around and leaves. 
   
   No one else enters the picture until 12:23 a.m. on Sept. 10, when a man goes around the same corner where Jenkins was last seen. A few seconds later, he walks quickly out of the frame and returns with a police officer. More officers soon arrive, hustling toward the corner. 
   
   Jenkins was pronounced dead at 12:48 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. 
   
   The video shows a body bag being removed at 4:53 a.m. 
   
   Kenneka Jenkins, 19, was pronouced dead early Sept. 10, 2017, after she was found in a walk-in freezer at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Rosemont. Since then, controversey has surrounded her death. (Tribune and Cook County medical examiner's office photos) (Tribune and Cook County medical examiner's office photos) 
   
   Jenkins had attended a party in a room of the Crowne Plaza that stretched into the early hours of Sept. 9. Her sister said she last spoke to her around 1:30 a.m. Jenkins' mother, Tereasa Martin, said that about 4 a.m. she received a call that Jenkins had gone missing. 
   
   In a 911 recording, Martin can be heard speaking to a police dispatcher a few hours later, relaying a version of events provided by Jenkins' friends: 
   
   "They said they went upstairs to get (a) cellphone … and (Jenkins) was standing in the lobby," she said. "When they came downstairs, she wasn't there anymore." 
   
   Martin asked if police could review surveillance footage from the hotel. She said she was worried because her daughter, who had a light tolerance for alcohol, had evidently been drinking — "One cup is too much for her" — and that the teen wasn't the type to disappear. 
   
   The dispatcher, noting that Jenkins was an adult and had been missing only a few hours, advised patience, saying it would take a while for detectives to get hold of the video. 
   
   "What I would recommend is just go home, relax a little bit, give it some time," he said. "(For) all we know she very well still could be in the room. She could just be passed out. You know how it is. You're drinking the night before, you get — you know what I mean." 
   
   The family ended up filing a missing persons report later that morning, Rosemont spokesman Gary Mack said, and police notified the hotel about 1:15 p.m. The hotel looked in all public areas and the floor on which the party was held but didn't find Jenkins, Mack said. 
   
   The family returned to the hotel about 6 p.m. and knocked on guest doors, trying to find witnesses. The hotel called police, and Martin said the officers who responded reviewed surveillance video and saw Jenkins "staggering" through the hotel about 3:20 a.m. 
   
   A second search ensued. That's when she was found dead in the freezer. 
   
   The medical examiner's office has yet to pronounce a cause or manner of death. A spokeswoman has said that determination might not come for weeks, pending further tests and investigation. 
   
   The case has been the subject of intense speculation on social media, with amateur detectives combing through videos apparently shot in the room before Jenkins disappeared. 
   
   Many have suggested online that she was murdered, but Rosemont police have consistently said they are conducting a death investigation, not a homicide probe. 
   
   At the news conference, Rogers suggested that Jenkins' life could have been saved, or at least that she would have been found more quickly, had hotel staff listened to her friends and mother when they came seeking help. 
   
   Jenkins' friends and family "were not given the assistance they needed. Assistance that probably, I suspect — I don't know — may have prevented us from being here today," Rogers said. 
   
   Martin, sitting between her attorneys, thanked everyone for their love and support. 
   
   "But I also want to know what happened," she said in a hushed voice. "I want to see it all. I want to see her actually walking into this freezer and closing herself within this freezer and freezing to death." 
   
   Chicago Tribune's Bob McCoppin contributed. 
   
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   Twitter @MidnoirCowboy ||||| Video released by Rosemont police Friday depicts Kenneka Jenkins staggering alone through a deserted hotel kitchen and disappearing around a corner — the last time she's seen alive. 
   
   Though it doesn't capture her entering the walk-in freezer where her body was found, video taken by what appears to be a motion-activated camera shows that no one else came into that area until her body was found. 
   
   Village officials released the video after days of speculation about the death of the 19-year-old Chicago woman and pressure by community activists dissatisfied with the investigation. 
   
   Attorneys Larry Rogers Jr. and Sam Adam Jr., who represent Jenkins' family, said at a news conference Friday afternoon that they will conduct their own investigation and perhaps seek a second autopsy. 
   
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   The hotel "never checked. They never searched, they never did anything while a young, 19-year-old disoriented girl was sitting in their freezer," Adam said. "Now there has to be an answer to how that happened. Better yet, there has to be an answer to why that happened." 
   
   On Friday afternoon, the village released six video clips from the early morning of Sept. 9, when Jenkins went missing. 
   
   The first two videos, from early Saturday, show Jenkins, her gait steady, walking with three others through a public part of the hotel. But in the next clip, about 2 hours later, she gets off an elevator alone, so unsteady she has to support herself on a wall. 
   
   Two minutes later, in another clip, she reels down a hallway. Then she wanders around another passage, clearly disoriented. Finally, she totters through an empty kitchen, around a corner and out of sight. 
   
   Activist claims video shows Kenneka Jenkins enter freezer alone 
   
   The same surveillance camera, which appears to be motion-activated, next picks up activity at 8:34 p.m., when a person briefly enters the frame, looks around and leaves. 
   
   No one else enters the picture until 12:23 a.m. on Sept. 10, when a man goes around the same corner where Jenkins was last seen. A few seconds later, he walks quickly out of the frame and returns with a police officer. More officers soon arrive, hustling toward the corner. 
   
   New video shows Kenneka Jenkins in her final moments caught on tape. (Facebook) 
   
   Jenkins was pronounced dead at 12:48 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. 
   
   The video shows a body bag being removed at 4:53 a.m. 
   
   Cops interview 12 people about puzzling death of Chicago teen 
   
   Jenkins had attended a party in a room of the Crowne Plaza that stretched into the early hours of Sept. 9. Her sister said she last spoke to her around 1:30 a.m. Jenkins' mother, Tereasa Martin, said that about 4 a.m. she received a call that Jenkins had gone missing. 
   
   In a 911 recording, Martin can be heard speaking to a police dispatcher a few hours later, relaying a version of events provided by Jenkins' friends: 
   
   "They said they went upstairs to get (a) cellphone … and (Jenkins) was standing in the lobby," she said. "When they came downstairs, she wasn't there anymore." 
   
   Martin asked if police could review surveillance footage from the hotel. She said she was worried because her daughter, who had a light tolerance for alcohol, had evidently been drinking — "One cup is too much for her" — and that the teen wasn't the type to disappear. 
   
   Police trying to track down friends of teen found in freezer 
   
   The dispatcher, noting that Jenkins was an adult and had been missing only a few hours, advised patience, saying it would take a while for detectives to get hold of the video. 
   
   "What I would recommend is just go home, relax a little bit, give it some time," he said. "(For) all we know she very well still could be in the room. She could just be passed out. You know how it is. You're drinking the night before, you get — you know what I mean." 
   
   Jenkins, 19, died after walking into a freezer at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare Hotel. (Facebook) 
   
   The family ended up filing a missing persons report later that morning, Rosemont spokesman Gary Mack said, and police notified the hotel about 1:15 p.m. The hotel looked in all public areas and the floor on which the party was held but didn't find Jenkins, Mack said. 
   
   The family returned to the hotel about 6 p.m. and knocked on guest doors, trying to find witnesses. The hotel called police, and Martin said the officers who responded reviewed surveillance video and saw Jenkins "staggering" through the hotel about 3:20 a.m. 
   
   Cops reviewing Facebook Live video showing teen found in freezer 
   
   A second search ensued. That's when she was found dead in the freezer. 
   
   The medical examiner's office has yet to pronounce a cause or manner of death. A spokeswoman has said that determination might not come for weeks, pending further tests and investigation. 
   
   The case has been the subject of intense speculation on social media, with amateur detectives combing through videos apparently shot in the room before Jenkins disappeared. 
   
   Many have suggested online that she was murdered, but Rosemont police have consistently said they are conducting a death investigation, not a homicide probe. 
   
   Teen found dead inside freezer after hotel party 
   
   At the news conference, Rogers suggested that Jenkins' life could have been saved, or at least that she would have been found more quickly, had hotel staff listened to her friends and mother when they came seeking help. 
   
   Jenkins' friends and family "were not given the assistance they needed. Assistance that probably, I suspect — I don't know — may have prevented us from being here today," Rogers said. 
   
   Martin, sitting between her attorneys, thanked everyone for their love and support. 
   
   "But I also want to know what happened," she said in a hushed voice. "I want to see it all. I want to see her actually walking into this freezer and closing herself within this freezer and freezing to death." 
   
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   With Bob McCoppin ||||| Videos catch glimpses of Kenneka Jenkins’ final hours at Crowne Plaza 
   
   She arrived at the hotel to party with her friends. 
   
   She stumbled down a hallway. 
   
   And she walked unsteadily through a hotel kitchen, disappearing around a corner. 
   
   Those were among the images of 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins captured on surveillance video at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, where she was found dead in a walk-in freezer last weekend. Rosemont police released nine video files Friday afternoon. 
   
   One video shows her walking alone in the hotel kitchen around 3:30 a.m. Saturday but does not directly show her walking into the freezer where she was found dead. 
   
   Among the clips, Jenkins can be seen arriving at the hotel with three other people shortly after midnight on Saturday. Subsequent clips show her stumbling off elevators and walking alone through hallways. 
   
   The release of the videos came hours after the lawyer for Jenkins’ mother said “serious questions remain” about the circumstances involving Jenkins’ death — and capped a week of apparent miscommunication between several of the parties involved. 
   
   Rosemont police opted to make the videos public during a press conference held by Jenkins’ mother’s attorneys — during which those attorneys repeatedly said they had been shown only a few “snippets” of video from the night Jenkins died. A day earlier, the Crowne Plaza had issued a statement offering to show Jenkins’ family all 36 hours of footage in private. 
   
   Jenkins left her home near the United Center at 11:30 p.m. Friday to go to a party in a room of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, according to Rosemont Police. Jenkins’ sister last heard from her via text message about 1:30 a.m. Saturday. 
   
   About 4 a.m., Jenkins’ friends called her mother to tell her they could not find her, longtime Chicago anti-violence activist Andrew Holmes has said. An hour later, Tereasa Martin — who had recently undergone a double mastectomy — was at the hotel. She filled out a police report and Jenkins’ sister reported her missing. 
   
   Jenkins was last seen at a party on the ninth floor of the hotel in the early hours of Saturday, police said. She was reported missing at 1:16 p.m. that afternoon. Police told Martin that surveillance footage showed Jenkins inebriated near the front desk, according to Holmes. 
   
   Hotel staff and management searched the hotel and discovered Jenkins inside a freezer at 12:24 a.m. Sunday, police said. 
   
   Rosemont police released a statement Friday evening saying detectives had interviewed 25 people so far during their investigation. Of those, 16 were in the hotel room during the party. Police continue trying to locate and interview another 15. 
   
   It was also determined, police said, that the room used for the party was paid for with a “fraudulent credit card obtained through identity theft.” 
   
   Since the weekend, Twitter and Facebook have been deluged with theories about Jenkins’ death — with many believing she was murdered. Rosemont police have said Jenkins’ death is considered noncriminal and that there was “no credible evidence at this point” that would prompt police to reclassify Jenkins’ death as a murder. Her autopsy was inconclusive pending further study. 
   
   Village officials on Friday also released 911 calls and police radio dispatches related to the search for Jenkins. 
   
   Martin called 911 from the hotel about 7:15 a.m. Saturday asking for police to help get the hotel to turn over security camera footage. The dispatcher advised her to wait a few hours in case her daughter turned up elsewhere. 
   
   A little before 6 p.m., another female, who didn’t indicate her relationship to Jenkins, made a tearful 911 call to file a missing person report; the dispatcher tells her a report already had been filed. Police said Jenkins was formally reported missing about 1:15 p.m. 
   
   Officers were dispatched to the hotel by 2 p.m., and they spent hours canvassing floors and trying to figure out on which floor Jenkins was last seen, according to radio transmissions. 
   
   At one point, the hotel’s front desk called police to remove Jenkins’ mother from the premises, saying she was going door-to-door throughout the building looking for her daughter. 
   
   At 12:25 a.m. Sunday, an officer radioed from a kitchen near a loading dock in the rear of the hotel. 
   
   “I have the subject in a kitchen in a freezer,” the officer said. “She is frozen solid.” 
   
   Thursday, the Crowne Plaza released a statement saying the hotel would allow Jenkins’ family to watch, in private, all 36 hours of video from more than 40 different cameras. The hotel also offered to cover funeral expenses. At Friday’s press conference, Martin’s attorneys said they were not aware of any such offer. 
   
   Glenn Harton, a Crowne Plaza spokesman, told the Chicago Sun-Times that Thursday’s offers were relayed to three well-known community activists in Chicago: Jedidiah Brown, Ja’Mal Green and Andrew Holmes. Harton said that as of Thursday, the hotel didn’t know if Martin had retained an attorney and the three activists were told of the offers because “they all identified themselves as spokespeople for the family.” 
   
   It was not known if Brown, Green or Holmes relayed the message to Martin. None of the three responded to requests for comment Friday evening. Friday afternoon, Harton said the family had not taken the hotel up on its offers. 
   
   In a statement Friday afternoon, Martin’s attorneys said: “No other person is or has been authorized to speak on behalf of the family.” 
   
   Shortly after the offer was made Thursday, Holmes said he saw surveillance footage and said Jenkins went into the freezer by herself, without being forced inside. 
   
   “We all was wondering and wanted to know did anybody pull her down there?” Holmes said, contradicting Rogers’ statement. “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.’” 
   
   Sam Adam Jr., one of Martin’s attorneys, said Friday: “I don’t know what Mr. Holmes saw or he didn’t. Quite frankly, to our investigation, it’s irrelevant.” 
   
   “At the end of the day,” Adam said, “we have a child who is dead and a mother who doesn’t know why.” 
   
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target: – Police have released surveillance video of Kenneka Jenkins, the Chicago teen whose death in a walk-in hotel freezer after a party last weekend has led to protests and theories that she was murdered. The footage, which appears to be from a motion-activated camera at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Rosemont, Ill, doesn't capture the moment the 19-year-old entered the freezer, but it shows her walking, alone and apparently disoriented, through a disused hotel kitchen on the way there, reports the Chicago Tribune. The video shows that nobody else entered the kitchen area until her frozen body was found early Sunday morning, almost 24 hours after friends said she was missing. Video from early in the evening shows Jenkins with friends, but a later clip shows her emerge from an elevator alone and so unsteady that she had to hold on to a wall, the New York Daily News reports. Another shows her wandering down a hotel hallway. Police say they have interviewed 25 party guests and they have no reason to believe Jenkins was murdered, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Sam Adam Jr., an attorney for the Jenkins family, says lawyers will carry out their own investigation. The hotel "never searched, they never did anything while a young, 19-year-old disoriented girl was sitting in their freezer," he told reporters Friday. "Now there has to be an answer to how that happened. Better yet, there has to be an answer to why that happened."