Dollar Tree worker discovers dead anesthesiologist and mother of 2 crammed 'inside a freezer' after she walked into store the night before, cops say

Florida constabulary are trying to fig retired however a 32-year-old anesthesiologist and parent of 2 coiled up dormant "inside a freezer" astatine a Miami Dollar Tree, according to officials.

"As of today, it is inactive being investigated arsenic an unclassified death," a Miami Police Department nationalist accusation serviceman told Law&Crime connected Monday.

The woman, who has been identified arsenic Helen Massiell Garay Sanchez, was recovered wrong of the Dollar Tree — located astatine 968 SW 8th Street successful Little Havana — connected Sunday morning. A 911 dispatcher was heard connected a constabulary scanner saying, "Complainant recovered a bare pistillate successful the cooler of the store," according to section CBS affiliate WFOR.

"We received a telephone from an employee, who reported that determination was a deceased pistillate wrong of the business, wrong of the freezer," the Miami PD spokesperson said. "No foul play is suspected, but it's inactive an progressive and ongoing investigation."

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Officers responded to the Dollar Tree connected Sunday and recovered Garay Sanchez's body in a freezer located successful a restricted, employee-only country wrong of the discount store, according to section TV presumption WPLG. Workers told the outlet that she was not a unit member.

Police accidental it doesn't look that Garay Sanchez was forced into the freezer, but it's inactive unclear however she ended up there. She was seen by workers walking into the store Saturday nighttime earlier it closed; the pistillate didn't bargain thing and was reportedly spotted making her mode to a freezer successful the backmost retention room.

Dollar Tree absorption could not beryllium reached for remark connected Monday. The store was closed portion constabulary investigated. It reopened aboriginal successful the time Sunday, WPLG reports.

"It's thing painful," a lawsuit told the station. "A family heartbroken present due to the fact that of the decease of a person, and we don't cognize what genuinely happened."

Another idiosyncratic told WFOR, "I got to beryllium honorable with you, I'm wholly devastated. I can't judge successful the Dollar Tree you'd find a dormant body."

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The Miami Herald reported seeing members of Garay Sanchez's household astatine the store arsenic constabulary investigated and were connected country Sunday. They declined to talk to media.

"Originally from Nicaragua, Dr. Garay dedicated her beingness to medicine, earning designation arsenic a Anesthesiologist specializing successful congenital bosom illness whose enactment brought anticipation and healing to countless children and families," a GoFundMe statement says astir the "devoted physician and beloved mother," with the leafage archetypal being reported by WPLG.

"Her compassion, skill, and committedness to redeeming young lives defined some her vocation and her character," the GoFundMe says. "Beyond her profession, she was a loving parent to 2 children, who stay successful Nicaragua and were the halfway of her world. Her strength, warmth, and unwavering emotion for her household volition ever beryllium remembered."

The idiosyncratic who started the online fundraiser did not respond to Law&Crime's request for remark connected Monday. Their narration to Garay Sanchez is unclear. They picture the doctor's decease arsenic a "tragic mishap portion abroad."