Posted on 09/16/2020 11:25:12 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
BOSTON — A woman was killed in an accident involving an elevator in Boston Monday evening. Emergency crews flooded the area outside the building at 1140 Commonwealth Avenue shortly after 5 p.m. on Monday. At the scene, authorities told Boston 25 News that they had been responding to reports of a woman trapped.
On Tuesday evening, nearly 24 hours since the accident, officials identified the victim as 38-year-old Carrie O’Connor. Her cause of death has been ruled as traumatic asphyxia, and officials confirmed it was accidental.
O’Connor was employed at Boston University, located just down the road from the accident site. According to her faculty page on the university’s website, O’Connor was a French lecturer in the school’s Romance Studies Department. She also taught at several other local colleges and universities, including Bentley, Northeastern, Tufts, and MIT.
Eric Carmichael’s wife heard her cries for help.
“She heard a woman in distress and tried to help her out as a neighbor," said Carmichael.
Carmichael says his wife saw the woman attempting to put a package onto the elevator.
“The lady was trying to put a package into the elevator, like that’s how we do it," said Charmichael.
Police later removing a large and long brown box from the building. They moved it out front at first, leaning it on a mailbox and then took it away.
O’Connor was a resident in the building. Neighbors told Boston 25 News Tuesday she had just moved into the building a few weeks ago.
“Five feet in front of my door is the elevator so it’s very creepy,” said Foskit.
Foskit says the building manager told him the elevator was stuck between floors.
“All that he told me was that [the elevator] was currently between the first floor and the basement," said Foskit. “[The elevator has] always worked fine. I’ve been here over a year and never had any issues with it.”
People who live at the address were shocked by what happened. Nevada Foskit was waiting out from for more than 90 minutes to get back into his home.
“I heard just an ungodly scream and we ran into the hallway and saw a gentlemen who was in distress screaming and hyperventilating and saying she’s dead, she’s dead," a woman who lives in the building, and who did not want to be identified, told Boston 25 News. Boston Police is investigating and OSHA has also assigned a team to figure out what happened.
According to tax records, the building dates back to 1920. The building had recently been inspected and was certified.
An obit for O’Connor was posted to BU Today, a publication for the school. In it, O’Connor’s parents remember her as an avid learner, linguist and world traveler. You can read the full piece here.
Yes, but you write cogent sentences.
There’s no place for you in modern journalism.
“One less D vote”
Unless she voted by mail already?
You never plan for this sort of thing..
Thanks, much more coherent.
The screaming was from a witness.
All Big Media’s “best” is on the Destroy Trump Project.
In NYC a year or so ago. Made the evening news. Video of it too.
Manoella Macedo
I’m guessing she died a gruesome death and the person writing the story didn’t know how to report it.
I wonder how many stories are finished by machines? Often they make no sense in any other way.
I agree the article is a mess.
Most local TV news sites have atrociously written news articles. I think they have their interns write them.
Possible deciphering of the article:
She was loading something too heavy for the elevator, so it stopped and the object fell on her. Or maybe it it was not too heavy but it fell on her and the impact caused the elevator to stop.
I can think mod other possibilities, but the article needs to be rewritten.
I used to write for TV news. What happens is you have a rough script usually hastily-assembled, and then you work it out with the video people and the newsreader and put it together. A lot of times the person or people doing the station website would just take our rough script and put it up on the web. That’s likely close to what happened here. I hope. :)
“a gentlemen who was in distress screaming and hyperventilating and saying she’s dead, she’s dead,”
A manly man.
I thought she drowned.
‘UNGODLY SCREAM’ Boston woman crushed to death when old fashioned elevator suddenly dropped and ripped arm off
https://www.the-sun.com/news/1477997/boston-elevator-woman-crushed-death/
SUN is a British tabloid...Not afraid of “offending” people...
I’m still interested in Elisa Lam’s 2013 elevator ride...
I believe you, but I haven’t watch the news on TV in years. I don’t think I’m missing anything.
“She heard a woman in distress and tried to help her out as a neighbor”
“The lady was trying to put a package into the elevator, like that’s how we do it”
“
Police later removing a large and long brown box from the building.”
It’s like listening to a Joe Biden speech.
Emergency crews flooded the area.......poor writing.
Reading another site, it says she was trying to get a package in the elevator when it suddenly fell to the first floor, taking her with it. We can surmise she was injured in the fall, or by being crushed at the outset, leading to lung or throat damage, followed by asphyxiation.
Horrible any way you slice it, but this article is an abject mess done by a 3rd grader.
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