Facebook videos that were filmed hours before the death of 19-year-old Kenneka Jenkins died in a hotel freezer show her in a room with her friends and a group which included at least two men.
The footage is now part of the investigation into the young woman’s death.
It was taken on Friday night at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rosemont, a suburb of Chicago, before she went missing.
Kenneka was reported missing on Saturday afternoon. Her body was found in a walk-in freezer at around midnight on Saturday.
In a Facebook live video which began at 1.36am on Saturday, the girl’s friends including Monifah Shelton are seen listening to music inside a hotel room.
Kenneka Jenkins was filmed by friends in what appeared to be a hotel room bathroom hours before she was found dead in a freezer at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rosemont, Chicago
Her friend Monifah Shelton (above) shared the footage after Kenneka’s disappearance in the early hours of Saturday morning. Police are now reviewing it along with other footage
Kenneka cannot be seen but a second video, that was shared by Shelton after her disappearance, shows her in the same hotel room bathroom on the night in question.
It is not known which of the videos was recorded first.
The Facebook live has been viewed more than four million times since Kenneka’s body was found.
It shows Irene Roberts, another woman, staring in to the camera while wearing heavily reflective sunglasses.
The reflection on her sunglasses show what appears to be the out:line of a man in a red t-shirt, jeans and white sneakers.
Throughout the six-minute video, two men’s voices can be heard and what sounds like a woman’s yelp and cry are also audible.
The girls are seen again in another video shared by Monifah after Kenneka’s disappearance. It shows them in an elevator
Another woman, Irene Roberts, began live streaming from what appears to be the same room at 1.36am. Kenneka is not seen in this video. In Irene’s reflective glasses, a man in a red t-shirt can be seen
Several other people are seen in this video as Irene talks on the phone. In the background, the group can be heard talking and music plays. What sounds like a woman’s cry for help is then muted by music
At the end of the six minute Facebook live, Monifah turned the camera on herself and returned to the hotel bathroom where she is also pictured with Kenneka. She is wearing the same outfit as she was when photographed with the now dead 19-year-old
She shared this message on Saturday shortly after Kenneka was reported missing
In the background, a woman can be heard saying: ‘It’s big ain’t it’ at times.
Later, another, with a similar sounding voice to Kenneka’s protests in slurred speech: ‘I am enjoying myself’.
Another, unidentified woman responds: ‘I don’t think so.’
At the end of the video, Kenneka’s self-proclaimed ‘best friend’ Shelton turns the camera on herself and reveals her outfit – a black jean jacket, flowery bra and high waisted jeans with a bright pink belt.
She films herself pouting in what appears to be a hotel room bathroom. The shower curtain and ceiling tiles are visible in the background.
On Saturday afternoon, around the same time as she was reporting missing, Shelton shared footage which showed the pair in the same bathroom.
Kenneka is filmed laughing and smiling and speaking in the same slurred speech that is heard in the Facebook live.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, around two hours after her body was found, Shelton shared another video in which she appears wearing the same outfit, this time standing next to Kenneka in an elevator.
Police are now considering all three as part of their investigation into the young woman’s death.
‘They’ve looked at it and continue to look at it and all the other social media videos and posts.
‘They are leaving no stone unturned as far as trying to corral everyone they can and talk to them and interview them about what happened and what was going on that night,’ Rosemont Police spokesman Gary Mack told The Chicago Tribune on Tuesday.
No arrests have been made and Kenneka’s cause of death has not been established however the woman’s mother said police told her she’d stumbled in to the freezer by herself, drunk.
The 19-year-old’s body was found in an industrial freezer of The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Rosemont at midnight on Saturday
She was outraged by the suggestion and has argued from the beginning that she suspected foul play, claiming that her daughter would not have been strong enough to open the freezer door if she was drunk.
Police have not yet established what caused the teenager’s death
At 4.30am on Saturday, Kenneka’s friends called her family to say that they could not find her.
Frantic, her relatives rushed to the hotel and alerted staff who her mother says were relaxed in their immediate approach to her disappearance.
It wasn’t until she reported her missing that she claims they picked up the pace with their search for it.
Only then did they begin reviewing surveillance footage, she said.
At midnight, they found Kenneka’s body in the freezer.
The hotel is not answering questions surrounding her death. In a statement, they said: ‘The Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel and Conference Center holds the safety, security and well-being of our guests and employees as our top priority and concern.
‘We are saddened by this news, and our thoughts are with the young woman and her family during this difficult time. The hotel staff will continue to cooperate fully with local authorities.
‘All further questions should be directed to the Rosemont Police Department.’
Kenneka’s mother Tereasa Martin insists there was foul play involved in her daughter’s death.
Kenneka’s mother Tereasa Martin said hotel staff did not look soon enough for her after she was reported missing
Kenneka’s death has sparked shockwaves and is being pored over by millions on social media