Lawyer found dead at upscale Donovan Hotel

[ajirons09]

Hmmm....lubricant? Computer? Condoms?

He stiffed the escort! 

 

http://wtop.com/dc/2015/02/new-clues-death-lawyer-found-upscale-d-c-hotel/

[+ deej]

He stiffed the escort!

 

Or he stiffed his drug dealer and it was the escort that found him.

[ajirons09]

Anything's possible...

 

I've had "Inner Circle" status with Kimpton hotels for four years now and have stayed at the Donovan hotel numerous times during my DC visits. It's a very cool, trendy, and upscale hotel. The rooftop bar is pretty awesome too during the Summer. Hard to imagine a murder went down at the Donovan. And, it's an eerie feeling knowing that I'll be staying there during my up and coming DC visit.

[+ Chris Eisenhower]

Anything's possible...

 

I've had "Inner Circle" status with Kimpton hotels for four years now and have stayed at the Donovan hotel numerous times during my DC visits. It's a very cool, trendy, and upscale hotel. The rooftop bar is pretty awesome too during the Summer. Hard to imagine a murder went down at the Donovan. And, it's an eerie feeling knowing that I'll be staying there during my up and coming DC visit.

 

A sting was recently conducted there.

[+ azdr0710]

Good Lord, between a murder and a sting, can't say the Donovan is on my list of places to stay next time I'm in DC!

 

 

well, Kimpton Hotels DO have a rep for being edgy!!

[+ purplekow]

i stayed at Rouge the last time I was in DC and it was great. Of course the company of the ever sexy Tyger would have made even a hot sheet motel seem like the Plaza. The Madera is also very nice and i do think of both of them as edgy, as far as hotel decor goes.

[BabyBoomer]

Does anyone know if the sting was conducted before or after the murder?

 

~ Boomer ~

[big-n-tall]

Before. It was a sportscaster who got caught. I think the sting was set up with female prostitute.

[+ quoththeraven]

This might get DC police looking into male escorting, if that turns out to have something to do with this.

 

A murder occurring at an upscale hotel like that -- a Kimpton, to boot -- is scary news. Yikes.

[+ dutchmuch]

If a male escort, wonder which 'high-end' one is involved?

 

U betcha DC Metro Police are going through the security cam videos.

[+ ArVaGuy]

That hotel used to be a Holiday Inn and has gone through several rebranding efforts by successive owners. The neighborhood has always been sketchy. That part of 14th street is infamous for street prostitution. It was really bad in the 1980s and 1990s. The police have been cleaning up the area for years, to the point of rerouting streets to make it more difficult for the clientele.

 

When this story first broke, my reaction was pick-up murder and/or a drug deal gone bad. It may have been both. Stories in the press initially said he was interviewing a client in a legal matter. That got shot down by other media reports. As with all such situations, there is much more to the story than publicly reported.

[RyanDean]

The link starting this thread includes security camera screengrabs.

I'm not convinced that the person pictured fleeing is identifiably male.

[+ dutchmuch]

Stories in the press initially said he was interviewing a client in a legal matter.

 

Well now the suspect has another legal matter.

[Guest boiworship08]

Sinister-looking suspect. Difficult to determine gender or ethnicity, but rather young.

[adriano46]

I have to agree with RyanDean above - I looked at that security screen image and it was not clear whether this was male or female or something in-between - and whether it was drug or sex or both-related. I got the sneaky suspicion the individual was "aware" of the security camera and tried to hide as much of the face as possible. Looked very underage to me.