On the morning of Thursday, August 22, 2019, a 30-year-old man was crushed to death by an elevator in his luxury high-rise apartment building, as his unsuspecting neighbors witnessed the horrific accident. Sam Wayspring clawed desperately to escape the packed elevator as it plunged from the lobby into the darkness of the shaft below. Sam was panning crushed between the elevator cart and the wall of the lobby hotel. The horrific scene took place at the 23-story Manhattan Prominent Tower on 3rd Avenue near East 25th Street and was captured on CCTV surveillance footage featured in this video. As one woman stands waiting, the elevator door opens into the lobby and a man wearing a backpack swiftly and safely emerges. Unexpectedly, the wheels around the elevator car malfunction as Wayspring and 5 others go rocketing downward. Wayspring instinctively shot out his right hand to grab the frame of the elevator door to the lobby. He then tried to plant his right leg onto the lobby floor but was immediately overpowered by the collapsing block of steel. Sam Wayspring had moved from Milwaukee to settle down in New York City and where he worked in software sales for 6 years before his entirely death. First responders pronounced Wayspring dead at the scene and autopsy results revealed Sam Wayspring was exfixiated to death and suffered extensive injuries to his neck and chest, ultimately dying from the crushing blunt force trauma to his neck and torso via mechanical expiation. Residents say that they had grown accustomed to the problematic elevators of the Manhattan Prominent or monthly rent for a one bedroom apartment starts around $3,700. One resident said that the elevators are always jumping between floors and compared the elevator rise to something out of a horror movie. Another resident added it's sadly not shocking that it wasn't addressed sooner, a life could have been saved and it shouldn't have to take someone to die to have a management company realize that there's an issue with our elevators. Wayspring's father agrees saying that the elevators were always in disarray and that the least the building could do is provide safety for the residents.