Women plunge from window of Atlanta hotel; 1 dead

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By RAY HENRY, Associated Press

Saturday, May 28, 2011

(05-28) 13:42 PDT ATLANTA, (AP) --

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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[TwilightGardener]

1. Play wrestling? At the age of 30? With a female friend?

Kinda weird.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. Yeah, not typical of women. Nothing wrong with it though...just don't 'play wrestle' near windows

[TwilightGardener]

9. They must have been really getting rowdy, to bust through a window.

I can't say I've ever wrestled with any female friends...it just never came up, somehow.

[Maru Kitteh]

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[Mojo_electro]

2. Sad story... kind of a freak accident.

...but I do find it remarkable that anyone survived a yen story fall.. I hope she recovers.

[leeroysphitz]

3. "and the next thing you know" n/t

[undeterred]

4. Don't they have laws about windows above a certain level?

It isn't that easy to break most hotel windows, is it?

[csziggy]

7. That was my first thought but then I remembered this case

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/window.asp

Police said a lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a downtown Toronto skyscraper crashed through a pane with his shoulder and plunged 24 floors to his death. A police spokesman said Garry Hoy fell into the courtyard of the Toronto Dominion Bank Tower early Friday evening as he was explaining the strength of the building's windows to visiting law students. Hoy previously had conducted demonstrations of window strength according to police reports. Peter Lauwers, managing partner of the firm Holden Day Wilson, told the Toronto Sun newspaper that Hoy was "one of the best and brightest" members of the 200-man association.

[closeupready]

8. I remember this one, too - he won a Darwin award for that year.

:(

[ecstatic]

13. Try lawsuit award. The window should not have given way that easily

And I hope Ms. Threatt's family sues too! This is ridiculous! These buildings are trying to cut corners by putting the equivalent of a curtain in the window! The public needs to know this to prevent more deaths!

[stuntcat]

18. yes.

Threatt's family can make them pay, a lot. I feel terrible thinking this when nothing can bring her back, but yes.

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. omg

[Trajan]

19. LOL .... We had a female friend who wanted to show off her 'unbreakable' Corelle ware

First, she held a dish above a tile floor and let go ....

CRASH ! .... Broke into numerous pieces ...

Undaunted, and thinking this was a fluke, she held another aloft, and let it fall too ...

CRASH ! .... another broken dish ....

So, just in case anybody asks : Corelle ware is NOT unbreakable ....

[Urban Prairie]

5. Horrible way to die so young and esp. on one's (30th) birthday to boot

Apparent her (so-far) surviving girlfriend fell another 5-6 stories further down to street level after tumbling off the sunroom's roof?

Wow!!

But I also could have died on my 25th birthday. I got a little too tipsy that night at a bar celebrating, and was driving a little too fast on my way home to my apartment late that night, tried to turn left onto a driveway leading into the parking lot of my apartment's complex, from a sandy but paved dead-end street, but the slippery sand caused my car to go into a straight-line skid instead, then it hit the "dead-end" being an inclined street-side curb, then went ~5' airborne, sailing between two trees, and then it finally landed ~40 yards deep into a field, blowing out all four tires, and damaging the four wheels, radiator, and steering linkage. There couldn't have been more than a foot or so of clearance on both sides of my car away from both of those mature trees when it passed between them.

I was very "fortunate", to say the least. This was long before seat-belt use became law in my state ('81) and the car was my "work" use second car, which was an older model '69 Plymouth Fury, and I wasn't buckled in. After sitting there and calming down for a while from that "sobering" near-miss, I managed to be able to start the stalled out engine, and drive the car, even with four flat tires and a leaking radiator, into the parking lot, so that it wouldn't attract the cops attention, since the field was nearby a busy street during the day. When I woke up the next morning, and later went out to the lot to assess damage to the car, and opened the hood, the engine and its compartment was almost completely covered in dirt and sand.

[Maru Kitteh]

11. So glad you're alive! Driving drunk like that can end in tragedy for not just the driver

but passengers, family, the innocent....

Lucky for everyone that only a car was killed that night. Fortunate are we who get to learn such valuable lessons at such a minor cost.

I'm glad you share this story, hopefully it will help others.

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Another good reason for idiots like these

to book ground floor rooms.

[underpants]

16. PIC- of her

[stuntcat]

17. it is sad

just found this about it too:
http://alleyesonwho.com/events/2011/05/28/model-lashawna-threatt-dead-dancer-ciara-williams-critically-injured-in-fall-from-w-hotel-window/

They were just two skinny girls, it doesn't make sense for them to be able to break a window like that.

I was at Grady hospital for a couple of months after a brain injury, I think I owe them my life. I hope they can help the other girl, Ciara. What a tragedy.