"This story is leaving this family confused. I'm truly confused, because those compactors are small...She's a big girl. She wasn't small, for her to climb in there. Somebody had to stuff her in there. How did her body get in the bag? Even if [the chute] has a bag at the end, was it closed?"
"Why would you go in there and try to go get [the purse]? When you could go run downstairs into the basement and get it? Everybody knows it goes to the basement. It's not making sense, because I know my cousin, in her right frame of mind, or even if she is drunk, she's not gonna think stupid."
"This is something that she's not crazy enough to do herself...to take herself away from her kids? She was a mother of four trying to make it in the world. She was just loving and outgoing."
Michelle Montgomery, a 39-year-old mother of four, was found dead in a garbage compactor room at a NYCHA building in East Williamsburg on February 1. Police initially investigated her death as a homicide but later concluded she accidentally fell into the compactor while attempting to retrieve her purse and was crushed to death. Her family strongly disputes this account, noting Montgomery was familiar with the building's garbage system and would have known trash goes to the basement. They question how her body ended up in a garbage bag and express skepticism that she would recklessly endanger herself, leaving behind four young children.
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