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.

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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