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A Chinese father and his mistress were executed after being found guilty of throwing his two children to their deaths from a high-rise apartment window in 2020. The father and his mistress saw the children as an obstacle to their relationship and staged the incident as an "accidental" fall. The Supreme People’s Court upheld the death penalty, ruling the motive for the killings as despicable and deserving of severe punishment.
Around 30 floors of an under-construction luxury condominium tower in downtown Los Angeles were covered in graffiti, prompting the LAPD to pledge better security measures for the site near the home of the Lakers. The Oceanwide Plaza project, located across from the Crypto.com Arena, has faced construction delays and financial challenges, with the recent graffiti incident adding to a series of attention-grabbing vandalism cases in the city, including the spray-painting of the new 6th Street Viaduct.
French climber Remi Lucidi, known as "Remi Enigma" on social media, has been found dead in Hong Kong after falling from a high-rise building while attempting a stunt. The 30-year-old man gained a large following by posting photographs from tall structures around the world. Police believe he fell from a ledge and no suicide note was found. The man had entered an apartment block under false pretenses and knocked on a penthouse window before his fatal fall, which broke a gas pipe. Supporters mourned his death on social media.
A sofa was caught in hurricane winds and flew off a 21-storey block in Ankara, Turkey, before crashing into a neighbouring house. The incident was filmed by a neighbour and the footage shows the sofa twisting and turning in slow motion before hitting the ground with a thump. The violent weather has caused destruction across the country, including ripping off the roof of a shopping centre and destroying the minaret of a mosque. Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavas has put all relevant teams on alert to intervene in the negative effects of the rain.
A Chicago firefighter died and three others were injured while responding to a high-rise building fire on Lake Shore Drive. Two civilians were also injured. The fire was confined to one large apartment on the 27th floor, which did not have sprinklers. The firefighter who died was identified as 55-year-old Lieutenant Jan Tchoryk. He collapsed on the 27th floor while leading a crew and died later in the hospital. This is the second firefighter death in two days in Chicago.
A veteran firefighter, Lt. Jan Tchoryk, has died and three others were injured in an extra-alarm blaze at a high-rise building in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. This marks the second firefighter to die in two days during a blaze. The cause of Tchoryk's death is not yet known. The building, which did not have sprinklers, was confined to one large apartment on the 27th floor. The high-rise was cited last year for allowing bushes and shrubbery to obstruct an exterior firehose connection.
A high-rise fire broke out in the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago, with large flames seen coming from a window on the 27th floor of the building. Three firefighters have been injured, with one in critical condition, and some residents have been evacuated. Part of inner Lake Shore Drive is closed while crews remain on the scene. The building is a condo and apartment building with over 260 units, and there were no sprinklers on the 27th floor.
Repairing the broken windows of the 555 California St. high-rise in San Francisco could take days as workers wait for the blustery conditions to subside. The area near the building was under a shelter-in-place order until late Tuesday after glass fell from the high-rise. The two damaged windows will be replaced in the coming days when the wind dies down. No injuries were reported, and the cause of the damage is suspected to be weather-related. Supervisor Aaron Peskin called for an investigation to determine if the window failure was an isolated event or part of a larger systemic problem.