Kenliada Maressa Porter, 32, was found fatally shot in a hotel room on the 30th floor of a River North hotel in Chicago on February 22, 2025. The Chicago Police Department and the Cook County medical examiner determined she suffered multiple gunshot wounds.

Porter was born February 24, 1992, in Madison, Wisconsin, and raised in East Moline. She is survived by her son Josiah Benton, parents Terrill D. Bailey and Victoria Marie Porter, siblings Chalicia, Chanecia, Laterria, Joshua, and Jaelin, and a large extended family. She graduated from UTHS and had worked as a camp counselor at Christian Friendliness.

Funeral services were scheduled for March 8, 2025, at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in East Moline, with cremation rites to follow. No arrests, suspects, or leads have been reported and authorities have not released information on a motive.

If anyone knew Kenliada or has information about what happened that night, please come forward.