DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- "It was a fairly minor crime with a fairly major consequence."
Those were the words of Eaton County Undersheriff Fred McPhail, describing a series of events Monday morning that led from the theft of less than $500 worth of children's clothing to a woman being crushed in a trash compactor.
Police were called at about 10:15 a.m. Monday by an employee of the Goodwill Store on West Saginaw Highway who said a woman was screaming, stuck inside the trash compactor, which was on at the time. The compactor is located behind the store.
McPhail said it appears Tate ignored the multiple "Keep Out" signs and climbed into the compactor, which was not on at the time. The sister was found hiding near the compactor, and tried to run from police toward a nearby Meijer store but was quickly arrested, he said.
The sister was uncooperative and told police she barely knew Tate - and only by her street name, Diamond - and didn't know where she was, McPhail said.
At the same time, a Goodwill employee turned the compactor on to use it.
"I think it's very likely that if she had told police where her sister was, they would have arrested (Tate) and she wouldn't have been crushed," McPhail said. "I'm sure that she's agonizing over that decision, being her sister."
That woman, Tyree Monique Tate, 26 of Delta Township, was extracted and transported to a nearby hospital, where she died Tuesday morning. Preliminary autopsy reports list the cause of death as multiple crush injuries.
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