85-year-old Venita Jonson, a Rockford resident died over the weekend when heavy snow fell from her rooftop avalanched and buried her as she shoveled her walk. Her death was ruled accidental, and caused by suffocation.
A neighbor called deputies to Johnson’s home in Rockford about 9 a.m. Sunday. The neighbor said he had stopped by the woman’s home to give her some candy and found the front door standing open.
The neighbor checked the home and found no one inside. He saw the back of her head protruding from a pile of snow. Her snow shovel handle was sticking out of the snow nearby. It appeared the snow had cascaded from her rooftop, knocked her down and buried her.
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Holy crap! I hadn’t heard a thing about this. How horrific!!!!!! I can’t imagine being 85 and having to shovel in the first place. Now I know why.
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