Crime & Safety

Two Women Fall at W Hotel, One Dies

The women were 'play fighting' when they fell through the hotel window, police say.

Early Saturday morning, two women fell from a 10th story window at the in Midtown. 

One women is dead and the other is in critical condition at Grady Memorial Hospital, according to Carlos Campos, public information officer with the Atlanta Police Department. 

Police were called to the hotel at 3:15 a.m., Campos said. 

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"Witnesses told officers on the scene that the victims were attending a birthday party at the hotel, and were 'play fighting' when they accidentally crashed through a window and fell," he said. 

The women fell about five stories onto an exterior ledge at the hotel.

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Lashawna Threatt, 30, died on the ledge, the AJC reports. The other woman rolled off the ledge and fell to the ground. 

Police are treating the incident as an accident, but Campos said the homicide unit is aiding in the investigation.


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