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By and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback&nbsp;—&nbsp;A respected lecturer at Boston University was killed in what is believed to be a freak elevator accident.Boston police found Carrie O’Connor, 38, inside the elevator in her apartment building, Sergeant Detective John Boyle told CNN. The building is off campus.Her death was ruled an accident, Boyle said, caused by “traumatic asphyxia,” which usually results when a heavy object suddenly crushes the chest.Police are still investigating the details of O’Connor’s death, but witnesses told Connor was loading a box into an elevator in her apartment building when the elevator suddenly plunged.“It was horrifying,” fellow tenant Leanne Scorzoni told WBZ of the incident. “I would never want to hear that. Ever. It wasn’t even a cry. I can’t even describe what it was.”State officials the elevator in the Commonwealth Avenue apartment building had been inspected recently.O’Connor’s family and colleagues at Boston University, where she’d taught courses in French language and culture, remembered Connor as a skilled baker and vegetarian cook, an experienced globetrotter and talented teacher.Before joining Boston University, where she’d just started her second academic year as a full-time lecturer after two years of part-time teaching, O’Connor taught at Tufts University, Northeastern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Louisiana State University, where she earned her PhD in French studies, .At Boston University, she , French literature and, most deliciously, French culture through gastronomy, among others.“Already then, and even more so now, she was an intrinsic part of the French section and the department at large,” French professor Odile Cazenave wrote in an email to the Romance Studies department, shared by the university. “As I spoke with her parents this morning, I let them know how much Carrie is very much alive and part of our department.”She was remembered by the Boston University Global House, a global student housing experience where she mentored French-speaking students. She, too.Ad FeedbackAd FeedbackAd Feedback

By and , CNNLink Copied!Ad Feedback&nbsp;—&nbsp;A respected lecturer at Boston University was killed in what is believed to be a freak elevator accident.Boston police found Carrie O’Connor, 38, inside the elevator in her apartment building, Sergeant Detective John Boyle told CNN. The building is off campus.Her death was ruled an accident, Boyle said, caused by “traumatic asphyxia,” which usually results when a heavy object suddenly crushes the chest.Police are still investigating the details of O’Connor’s death, but witnesses told Connor was loading a box into an elevator in her apartment...

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