CRUSHED BY AN ELEVATOR!
Freak accident kills professor moving into new apartment
COLLEGE French teacher Carrie O’Connor suffered a terrifying and gruesome death when she was squished between an elevator and the shaft wall.
The 38-year-old Boston University lecturer was moving into her new apartment when she lost control of an 80-pound, 7½-foot box she was carrying into the 60-yearold birdcage elevator, investigators say.
The carton brushed against an emergency stop switch that flipped and allowed the killer car to move down while the inside cage door was still open, say sources.
Resident Leanne Scorzoni described O’Connor’s death as “horrifying.”
She says a neighbor, who was helping the teacher, was taking the stairs because there was no room in the elevator with her and the large carton.
“I heard it, he saw everything,” she says. “He was going up the stairs, and he told her, ‘Hey, just be careful because it’s an old-fashioned elevator.’
The man warned her, “‘Oh, I don’t think that’s gonna fit in there.’ And then she’s like, ‘Oh, I’ll try it one more time.’ And then I heard her screaming, and I heard him screaming.”
Scorzoni says when she ran out of her first-floor apartment, the man was screaming and pointing.
“When I looked at the elevator, it was not there,” she says. “Only the ceiling of the car was on my floor.”
Inspector Martin Guiod called the grisly death an accident, saying: “Based upon my technical inspection, my investigation and my observation of the video, there is no indication that any malfunction occurred with the elevator.
“It is my conclusion that the elevator was operating as designed.”