A dumbwaiter for those who don’t know is a small elevator used to carry objects as opposed to people. Restaurant use them for multiple things, but mainly for dishes, supplies, food and things like that.
A Gymnast sadly lost her life in the machine and cops aren’t sure how it happened.
The college gymnast whose body was found inside a western Wisconsin restaurant’s dumbwaiter died after she got trapped inside the machinery, The Winona Daily News reported.
The paper, citing 911 calls and Fountain City’s only police officer, reported that an employee at WingDam Saloon and Grill called 911 Monday at 7:49 p.m., stating that a co-worker “got (caught) in, like, our dumbwaiter.” The employee, who was not identified, was in tears and was unable to identify the worker trapped. But the victim was later identified as Brooke Baures, 21, a gymnast at Winona State University in nearby Minnesota.
Fountain City Police Officer Jason Mork said Wednesday he has interviewed about half of the customers and employees present at the restaurant and no one saw how the student entered the dumbwaiter. Mork said he has talked face-to-face with about 14 of the 28 potential witnesses and said there was no indication how or why Baures entered the food elevator. It was not something employees had done in the past, he said.
Mork told the paper that Baures was trapped “inside the entirety of the device. To explain more of her specific location, orientation or obvious injuries would require an extremely graphic explanation.”
There is a multi-agency investigation into the gymnast’s death and officials would not speculate on the cause of death until after an autopsy is completed.
Very strange, the cops say they don’t believe a crime was committed, but don’t want to say much at the moment. They believe she pressed the button for the dumbwaiter to go down and then possibly reached in for something and became trapped, but it is all speculation at this point.
Thoughts and prayers go out to her family and friends.
H/T Fox News
