The Teen daughter of the woman who fell to her death from a W Hotel window has filed her own wrongful death lawsuit.
Last month, LaShawna Threatt, was “play fighting” with her best friend when both women crashed through a 10th floor window of the W Hotel in midtown, and plunged 5 floors to an elevated steel and glass platform. Threatt died on the platform, but her friend, Cierra Williams, survived the fall.
According to WSBTV.com, Threatt’s mother, Sharon Traylor, (pictured above 2nd from left), Threatt’s fiancé, LaRay “Ray” Hamilton (center), and a family friend approached the Cochran Firm in Atlanta to represent Threatt’s 14-year-old daughter, Imonee.
Threatt’s father (Imonee’s grandfather) also filed a wrongful death suit about a week after Threatt’s death.
Maurice Threatt, alleges that the window in room 2012, was previously broken and improperly replaced. Mr. Threatt has also filed to become sole executor of her estate.
Ray Hamilton shows a reporter where LaShawna went out the window
But Traylor and Hamilton argue that, “as the surviving daughter and sole legal heir of LaShawna Threatt, [Imonee] is the only person legally entitled to bring a wrongful death lawsuit for the death.”
Imonee is asking the Cochran firm to name Hamilton — Threatt’s boyfriend of 7 years — as her legal guardian, “and that he and her grandmother file a petition to be named co-administrators of Threatt’s estate,” according to WSBTV.com.
LaShawna’s friends contend that the hotel window was defective. The windows in high rises hotels should be fortified, high impact glass, rated to withstand hurricane force winds, and shouldn’t have broken out even if someone leaned against it.
