- Philadelphia police are investigating the “suspicious” death of a flight attendant at a local hotel.
- On Monday evening, a 66-year-old woman was found “with a cloth in her mouth” at a Marriott hotel.
- The woman, a flight attendant with American Airlines, was pronounced dead.
Philadelphia police are investigating the “suspicious” death of an American Airlines flight attendant who was found dead this week at an airport hotel.
On Monday at 10:41 p.m. local time, police responding to a call at the Philadelphia Airport Marriott discovered a woman inside her hotel room “unresponsive with a cloth in her mouth,” according to Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson Shawn Ritchie.
She was pronounced dead four minutes later.
Police are investigating the death as a homicide. No weapons were recovered at the scene and no arrests have been made.
According to NBC10, Chief Inspector Scott Small said the deceased, an unidentified 66-year-old woman, likely suffered a “sudden death.”
There were no signs of forced entry, and she had been on “several medications,” Small added without specifying what kinds.
American Airlines did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment on Wednesday.
So far this year, Philadelphia has recorded 323 homicides, a 23% decline from 2022 but roughly double the number from a decade earlier. The vast majority of those killed — 292 — were victims of gun violence.
