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Model Dead After Falling Out Window on 30th Birthday

'Play fight' with best friend leads to tragedy

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted May 29, 2011 2:58 PM CDT

(Newser) – Aspiring model LaShawna Threatt’s 30th birthday turned tragic yesterday when she plunged from the 10th story window of an Atlanta hotel. Threatt, mom to a 15-year-old girl, was “play fighting” with Ciara Williams at her birthday party when they crashed through a thick window at around 3:15am, police say. Threatt died after landing on a sunroof four or five stories down; Williams rolled off the sunroof and fell another 20 feet. She is in critical condition, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

"LaShawna is a mess, a silly goofball. She likes to play fight and tickle you. They had just gotten in the hotel and were having a good time," says a friend who did not attend the party. "My friends who were there, said it was so random. They literally just fell out the window. They are two small girls and I am trying to figure out how the hell two small girls could break a window like that." Police say there was no “malicious act” or foul play and are investigating it as an accident.

An Atlanta hotel, but not the one LaShawna Threatt was in before she died.
An Atlanta hotel, but not the one LaShawna Threatt was in before she died.   (AP Photo/Phil Coale)
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COMMENTS
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Count-Spatula
May 31, 2011 8:39 PM CDT
Pretty, tickle-fighting models: Fail Darwin: Win!
crafter67
May 30, 2011 1:20 AM CDT
RIP - freak accident indeed...guess she took the adage "don't trust anyone over 30" too literally....
Dr_Glickman
May 30, 2011 12:57 AM CDT
The hotel was clearly criminally negligent in failing to provide  adequate safeguards against the possibility of intoxicated guests flinging themselves full force against the front plate glass window. The hotel management will be held fully accountable for this unconscionable and senseless act via civil and even criminal charges.  We will seek punitive/compensatory damages in the 8-9 figure range and settle for nothing less than half for our efforts to adjudicate and litigate this unspeakable and egregious act to a satisfactory conclusion for all parties expecially ourselves.
 

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