SAN FRANCISCO (BCN)—A man was found dead in an elevator shaft at the Montgomery BART and San Francisco Municipal Railway station Sunday night, a BART police lieutenant said.
BART and San Francisco police, as well as San Francisco fire personnel, responded to a report of a person stuck in an elevator at the Montgomery station at about 9:35 p.m., BART police Lt. John Conneely said.
Employees at Montgomery station managed to get a man out of the elevator, but had requested for an ambulance, Conneely said.
The man who was stuck in the elevator told police he was going from the Muni level up to the concourse level when he heard a crunching sound and a man yelp before the elevator stopped, Conneely said.
Conneely said that fire personnel found a man in the shaft. He was pronounced dead at the scene.