Model plunges to death after fall from 10th-story hotel window on her 30th birthday

[Amerigo Vespucci]

ATLANTA -- A 30-year-old model died celebrating her birthday and another woman was seriously injured when they plunged from a 10th-story hotel window at a hotel early Saturday morning, investigators said.

Witnesses told police that 30-year-old Lashawna Threatt and second woman were "play wrestling" in a room at the W Midtown Hotel around 3:15 a.m. when they crashed into a window and fell four or five stories onto a slanted glass ceiling above a sunroom.

"They were play wrestling and the next thing you know, they went toward the window and through the window and out they went," said Lt. Paul Guerrucci, commander of the Atlanta Police Department's homicide unit.

Rescuers found Threatt dead on the sunroom roof. The second woman, whom police would not identify, tumbled off that same roof and fell onto an outdoor patio outside the hotel. She was taken to Grady Hospital with multiple broken bones and other injuries and listed in critical condition. Friends say Threatt was the best friend of the injured woman.

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[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Yes.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1191599&mesg_id=1192669

[Sonoman]

2. I used to stay at that W a lot.

But the bar seating is awkward so now I stay at the Ellis, the coolest small hotel in Atlanta.

Also, the W seems to be headquarters for The Suddenly Famous, who I usually find to be either boring or obnoxious.

Sonoman