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Authorities say a shoplifting suspect who fled a discount department store at the Lansing Mall has died after being crushed in a trash compactor where she was hiding.
An Eaton County sheriff's deputy responded Monday following a report that two women sprayed a security guard with mace at TJ Maxx in Delta Township. One was found behind a nearby trash compactor.
The department says the woman wouldn't say where the other woman could be found.
Shortly afterward, authorities got a call about a woman trapped in the trash compactor. The woman was pulled from the machine by rescuers and taken to a hospital, where she later died.
The dead woman was identified as 26-year-old Tyree Monique Tate of Delta Township. The other woman's name wasn't immediately released.