2 women play-fighting at party in Atlanta hotel room fall through 10th-floor window; 1 killed

By Ray Henry, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press

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

Witnesses told police that 30-year-old Lashawna Threatt and a 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.