Man killed after pickup truck falls on him
The reported owner of an auto shop died after a pickup truck fell on him Wednesday night in southwest suburban Orland Park.
Mark Minonne, 32, of the 5200 block of S. Kostner Ave., was pronounced dead at 7:54 p.m. at St. James Hospital and Health Centers in Olympia Fields after a truck fell on him at 15622 S. 70th Ct. in Orland Park, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. An autopsy is scheduled for later Thursday.
Midwest Fuel Injection Service Corporation is listed at the Orland Park address.
At 7:35 p.m., the Orland Park Fire Protection District responded to the car shop for a report of an injured man, according to Battalion Chief Steve Smith.
The man, who reportedly owns the car shop, was working under a Pickup truck held by a lift when it possibly failed and the truck fell on him, Smith said. Nobody else was injured.
“We don’t know what happened,” according to Smith, who said police are probing the incident. Orland Park police were not immediately available.
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