Woman Froze to Death Inside Dollar Tree Store in Miami, Autopsy Report Shows
A wrongful-death lawsuit claims Dollar Tree was negligent in securing a restricted freezer area after a 32-year-old doctor died of hypothermia with alcohol intoxication.
- A 32-year-old woman, Helen Massiell Garay Sanchez, froze to death inside a Dollar Tree store in Miami due to environmental hypothermia and alcohol intoxication.
- Her autopsy report showed a blood alcohol level of 0.112% and an ocular fluid alcohol reading of 0.156%, above the legal driving limit.
- Garay Sanchez's family filed a lawsuit against Dollar Tree, claiming the store failed to protect patrons from risks like walk-in freezers.
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Doctor Found Dead in Store Freezer: A Tragic Mystery Unfolds
The fluorescent lights inside a discount store in Little Havana are not supposed to illuminate tragedy. They flicker over plastic storage boxes and seasonal tinsel, over bargain sweets and paper plates. They hum, they glare, they make everything feel mundane. But behind one staff-only door, in the hard, mechanical cold of a walk-in freezer, something happened that still refuses to feel real. In December, employees at a branch of Dollar Tree open…
Woman found dead inside Dollar Tree freezer had alcohol in her system, autopsy says - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports
Newly released autopsy has revealed alcohol may have played a factor in a tragedy at a store late last year. Miami-Dade Medical Examiner officials said the cause of the death for 32-year-old Helen Massiell Garay Sanchez was hypothermia with a contributory cause of ethanol, commonly known as alcohol, use. Her body was discovered in the freezer of a Dollar Tree in Little Havana near Southwest Eighth Street and Ninth Court in December. Following he…
Family suing in case of boozed up doctor who wandered into Dollar Tree freezer and died
Family suing in case of allegedly boozed up doctor who wandered into Dollar Tree freezer and died · American Wire News
Alcohol has been cited as a contributing factor in the strange case of a doctor who was found dead in a Miami Dollar Tree freezer. A toxicology report from the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office revealed that Dr. Massiell Garay Sanchez “had a blood ethanol level of 0.112%, which would have been above the legal limit to drive, and an ocular fluid ethanol reading of 0.156%,” Local 10 News reported. The 32-year-old anesthesiologist is believed to…
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