{"id":18412,"date":"2017-01-02T05:39:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T05:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=18412"},"modified":"2017-01-02T05:39:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T05:39:09","slug":"man-falls-to-death-off-roof-of-dupont-circle-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/man-falls-to-death-off-roof-of-dupont-circle-hotel.html","title":{"rendered":"Man Falls to Death Off Roof of Dupont Circle Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Man Falls to Death Off Roof of Dupont Circle Hotel<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Man Falls to Death Off Roof of Dupont Circle Hotel:- A 23-year-old man died early New Year&#8217;s Day after he fell 10 floors from the roof of a hotel at Dupont Circle into a boiler shaft, police and fire department officials say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">John Leonard, of Herndon, Virginia, fell from the roof of The Dupont Circle hotel on the 1500 block of New Hampshire Avenue NW.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">A police department spokeswoman told The Washington Post that Leonard fell about 2:30 a.m. Sunday after he went to the roof to get a good view of the city. He was with another person, possibly his girlfriend, the spokeswoman told the paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Neighbors told News4 they heard screams from the hotel that overlooks Dupont Circle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Crews that specialize in confined-spaces rescues recovered Leonard&#8217;s body in the basement of the building, in the boiler room, a fire department spokesman said.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"> D.C. police are investigating Leonard&#8217;s fall as accidental.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">A manager of the hotel, where Leonard was a guest, called the incident &#8220;a tragic accident.&#8221; He did not offer additional details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">A family member contacted by News4 on Sunday night said the family had no immediate comment on Leonard&#8217;s death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Stay with News4 for more details on this developing story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local\/Authorities-Man-Dies-After-Fall-Down-Boiler-Shaft-409118445.html<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/man-falls-to-death-off-roof-of-dupont-circle-hotel.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man Falls to Death Off Roof of Dupont Circle Hotel Man Falls to Death Off Roof of Dupont Circle Hotel:- A 23-year-old man died early New Year&#8217;s Day after he fell 10 floors from the roof of a hotel at Dupont Circle into a boiler shaft, police and fire department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[11230,11231,11232,11235,11234,3442],"class_list":["post-18412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-breaking-international-news","tag-breaking-world-news","tag-latest-worls-news","tag-local-news-usa","tag-man-falls-to-death-off-roof-of-dupont-circle-hotel","tag-usa-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}