Numerous violent incidents, some resulting in death, have occurred at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles.
[a] Originally opened as a middle-class hotel on December 20, 1924, it eventually became a budget hotel, hostel, and rooming house.
Its reputation is due to at least 16 sudden or unexplained deaths that have occurred in or around the hotel.
[2] In 2011, the hotel's name was changed to Stay on Main in an effort to distance the establishment from its past.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles Country Coroner said that the death was believed to be suicide by defenestration.