Heartbreaking Thanksgiving message from Boston woman found killed in Lowell

A young mother, just 22, who was found dead in a Lowell apartment Friday said in the last post on her Facebook page that she was excited for her infant daughter’s first Thanksgiving.

“… can’t wait to celebrate her first thanksgiving,”  Dejah Jenkins-Minus posted Wednesday evening.

Those words ended up being her final message on the social media site.

Jenkins-Minus, 22, of Boston, was killed over the holiday weekend in Lowell. The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office is investigating the homicide. No arrests had been made as of Sunday.

A memorial outside her Mattapan home was full of colorful candles, notes posted remembering her, flowers and stuffed animals.

On Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, Lowell Police at around 10:45 a.m. responded to a residence on Llewelyn Street to conduct a well-being check at the request of a person known to Jenkins-Minus.

Officers found her body inside the residence with signs of trauma. EMS responded to the scene and pronounced her dead. The Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has ruled her death a homicide by “multiple sharp force injuries.”

This is not believed to be a random incident, according to police.

“The investigation is still active and ongoing,” a spokesperson for the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office told the Herald Sunday evening.

Jenkins-Minus’ mother, LaToya Minus, posted a photo of her daughter on Facebook and wrote, “She was so happy.”

Minus also shared a photo of her granddaughter and wrote, “Lani baby I got you! I PROMISE YOU NANI NEVER GONNA LEAVE YOUR SIDE.”

Chris Jenkins wrote on Facebook about his cousin, Jenkins-Minus: “This doesn’t feel real, feels like all a dream, okay we can all wake up now to this tragic that isn’t true to believe … I would do anything to just see that smile one more time, or just hear your voice again. A lot of memories at aunty Tanya house growing up. You will forever be loved and missed.”