Woman dies after seventh-floor hotel window gives way

Renata Rebeca Negrão Saldanha dos Santos, 26, died after falling from a seventh-floor window at the Rio Poty Hotel in São Luís, Brazil, on November 3. Police are treating the death as accidental and have released her boyfriend after questioning. Investigators have not established why the window structure detached. Police chief George Marques said surveillance footage showed no push or aggression and that the boyfriend was not close to Renata when she fell. Police questioned him and released him; Marques said hotel employees still needed to be interviewed and that the boyfriend could be questioned again. He was not considered a suspect at the time of the reporting. Accounts of the footage agree that Renata and her boyfriend were in a hotel corridor shortly before the fall and that she leaned against the window structure. Her mother, Betty Negrão, disputed an account that Renata sat on the window ledge, saying she leaned against it and fell. The precise sequence described in reports differs, but investigators have not announced a final technical finding about the window’s failure. The Maranhão Public Security Secretariat said specialists were examining the detached structure,...