Schaumburg woman's November death ruled suicide
The long-puzzling death of a Schaumburg woman found burned in an office building parking garage has been ruled a suicide by investigators.
Shefali Bhagwanjee, 32, was found near her vehicle in a parking garage at 1600 McConnor Parkway in Schaumburg at about 9:40 a.m. Nov. 30.
For three months, Schaumburg police maintained that the initial evidence found at the scene made it difficult to make a determination between suicide and murder.
But Schaumburg police Sgt. John Nebl said Tuesday that both the police department and Cook County medical examiner's office had closed the case with a final ruling of suicide.
The medical examiner's official cause of death was self-immolation.
Friends said that Bhagwanjee had moved to the U.S. around 2004 and worked in real estate. She was born in India and she and her husband had two sons, a toddler and a newborn.
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