Woman who died in office cubicle found four days later
The body of an employee at one of America's biggest banks was in her office cubicle four days after she passed away, according Arizona police officials.
Denise Prudhomme, 60, had used her ID to scan into the building on August 16 at 7am, four days later her dead body was found slumped over in her cubicle at the bank's office in Tempe.
“To hear she’s been sitting at the desk like that would make me feel sick,” an employee at Wells Fargo told local news outlet K12News.
“And nobody did anything. That’s how she spent her last moments.”
The employee told the outlet that several workers had complained of a foul smell when they came back to work after the weekend, but thought it was just bad plumbing.
K12News reported that another employee found Prudhomme dead at her desk in a cubicle while walking around the building, and the security guards then alerted police.
One employee said that the building's security guards should have found her body earlier.
“That’s the scary part. That’s the uneasy part,” they said.
“It’s negligence in some part.”
Prudhomme’s cause of death has not yet been released, though officials have said that based on the preliminary investigation there was no sign of foul play.
The investigation is ongoing.
Wells Fargo shared a statement with several other news outlets saying that they were “deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our colleague” and will be providing counsellors to support office employees.
They are also co-operating with police in their investigation.
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