DLSU student falls to death from hotel’s 25th floor

MANILA, Philippines–A De La Salle University (DLSU) student fell to his death from the 25th floor of a hotel in Mandaluyong City on Saturday night.

SPO1 Emmanuel Ermino of the Mandaluyong police identified the fatality as John Michael Lingad, 26, a graduating student from Quezon City. He was staying in a room at the Lancaster Hotel on Shaw Boulevard.

Ermino said that Lingad checked in by himself at 5:45 p.m. on Saturday. At 11:10 p.m., the hotel staff heard a loud crashing sound and found a man lying face down on street in front of the establishment.

They found Lingad’s identification card inside a wallet beside the body, Ermino added.

Upon checking Lingad’s room, Ermino said the TV set was still on while the room’s bathroom window had been left open. The police found a half-empty bottle of liquor beside the hotel’s stationery pad, which had a message written on it and a photograph of a woman.

Ermino said the note read: “Feb. 14, 2014 I wish to go back to those times.”

Lingad’s uncle, whom Ermino talked to Sunday, said that his nephew, whose parents were both abroad, had not exhibited any unusual behavior in the previous days. He also did not have any problems he knew of, he added.

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