A Florida anesthesiologist and mother of two wound up dead “inside a freezer” at a Miami Dollar Tree last year after she “became trapped inside,” her family says in new $50 million lawsuit, which accuses a manager of instructing a worker on duty “not to review the surveillance footage” and failing to take “reasonable action to locate or assist” the mom.
The Miami Police Department told Law&Crime that Helen Massiell Garay Sanchez, 32, was found inside of the Dollar Tree — located at 968 SW 8th Street in Little Havana — on Dec. 14. A 911 dispatcher was heard on a police scanner saying, “Complainant found a naked female in the cooler of the store,” according to local CBS affiliate WFOR.
“We received a call from an employee, who reported that there was a deceased woman inside of the business, inside of the freezer,” a Miami PD spokesperson told Law&Crime. “No foul play is suspected, but it’s still an active and ongoing investigation.”…