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A apartment painter was crushed to death by an elevator Tuesday while cleaning paint out of an apartment building`s elevator shaft
Cecile Turner, 22, of 6200 S. Exchange Ave., was pronounced dead at 12:22 p.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, hospital spokesman James Henri said.
Turner had spilled paint down an elevator shaft at 1210 N. Astor St., an apartment building, said Sgt. F. O`Connor, of the Belmont Area. She was cleaning the shaft at the 3d-floor level about 11:40 a.m., when the elevator came down on her from the 5th floor, he said.
Her death, listed as accidental, remains under investigation, he said.
