‘Immeasurable conscious pain’: Family of teen who died in 10-degree hotel freezer to get $6 million wrongful death settlement

Kenneka Jenkins is seen in her final moments in a Chicago hotel surveillance video before dying in freezer. (Surveillance video screenshot from Rosemont Police Department via CBS Chicago/YouTube; Jenkins photo from news conference with family lawyer)

Kenneka Jenkins is seen in her final moments in a Chicago surveillance video before dying in a hotel’s commercial walk-in freezer. (Surveillance video screenshot from Rosemont Police Department via CBS Chicago/YouTube; Jenkins photo from a news conference with the family lawyer)

The family of a 19-year-old woman who suffered “immeasurable conscious pain” as her body shut down and she froze to death in a hotel walk-in freezer outside of Chicago after a night of partying will receive more than $6 million in a wrongful death settlement.

The agreement was made on Tuesday in the lawsuit involving the death of Kenneka Jenkins. Her mother, Tereasa Martin, filed a $50 million lawsuit in 2018. It named the hotel owner and operator, CPO Hospitality LLC, its security staff, and the restaurant responsible for managing the kitchen.

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