Mon 1 Jun 2009
Police found a woman apparently crushed to death by her garage door Saturday morning on the South Side, authorities said.
A Stroger Hospital emergency medical technician and single mother of four, Yneekah Garcia was an independent woman proud of the South Side home she’d purchased for her family about five years ago.
Family members said they think she didn’t want to ask for help with the garage door, which was damaged earlier when a daughter accidentally drove the car into it, as she arrived home sometime after 3 a.m. Saturday. She had attended a memorial for some motorcyclists killed in a crash last weekend.
Garcia, whom family said had severe asthma, parked her Ford Explorer with the keys and purse inside, but when she tried to lower the green-vinyl-coated door–which family estimated weighed at least 200 pounds–it fell atop and killed her, family and friends said.
“She must’ve tried to let it down and it caught her neck,” said Garcia’s grandmother, Ardella Turner. “All we know is the door came down on her neck.”
A neighbor found the 33-year-old woman around 6:30 a.m. with her neck under the door of detached 2-car garage and her body in the alley behind her home in the 8800 block of South Indiana Avenue, according to authorities and family.
Source: Chicago Breaking News
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Killed by a garage door? I’m sure Yneekah Garcia contemplated her own death on a few occasions, but being crushed to death by a garage door was certainly not one of them. If I were Yneekah I’d be bullshit!
Thanks God! Nice plan you had there for Mrs. Garcia. Just great!
It’s not what you fear which ultimately kills you, it is what you least expect and that is why there is no cheating death. It’s why a 400 pound woman lives till she is 90 eating Ding-Dongs all day and a fitness instructor dies of a heart attack.
This is a tragic story worthy of mentioning my life moto:
Drink your face off before something rips it off.
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June 2nd, 2009 at 5:47 pm
I have recently hard about the news about nikki from other members from the hospital and thought that a more worse thing could not have happened to a nicer person that was helping others and was a good friend to one and all.Wishing we all had more time to spend with her to hear her contagious laugh and smile along side of her.Loved her as my friend and treated her like my sister as she treated us all as family.My heart goes out to her family and we will be in contact with the family to see if there is any way we can help, as I am sure she would of done for any of us.Con todo amor querida!MUAH!
OZ