Anchor ads are not supported on this page.

4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs

Body found on a Gaslamp balcony

Hotel guest discovers dead man was likely there all night long

San Diego police, firemen, and paramedics responded to the report of a dead body on a balcony outside of a room on the ninth floor of the Marriott Gaslamp Hotel on K Street shortly after 6 a.m. Wednesday, November 18.

The occupant of that room, Carol Crego, a company official for a national transportation company, discovered the body when she opened the blinds early Wednesday morning. She believes that the body may have been there all night.

After checking into her hotel room at around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, she opened the blinds to see the view and some windows for fresh air. Around 5 p.m., two of her coworkers came to the room for drinks before dinner. As they stood around, one coworker pointed out a place where someone he knew worked.

Sponsored
Sponsored

“There was nothing outside there at that time,” Crego says.

After returning to her room at about 8:30 p.m., she said she turned on the television, got ready for bed, and began watching TV. Realizing it had been cold at night the past few nights, she closed the windows.

“When I leaned down to close them I noticed a shoe and a cell phone laying outside my window. My first thought was someone may have crawled over the ledge and was out there, which was a scary thought. It was completely dark; it bothered me thinking maybe someone was peeking in on me. I quickly closed the curtain.”

Not hearing any noise, she figured someone was goofing off and had thrown a shoe and someone’s phone up there.

More than eight hours after finding the body of the deceased male, San Diego police had no additional information to offer. An email from SDPD spokesman Travis Easter stated, “Homicide was not called out to investigate the incident. If there were anything more to this incident then a press release would be issued.”

Ms. Crego of Santa Barbara was here in San Diego for the last time on official business before retiring after more than 30 years of service with her company. She said, “It’s not the way I want to remember the beginning of my retirement.”

Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Reader Music Issue short takes

Obervatory's mosh pit, frenetic Rafael Payare, Lemonhead chaos, bleedforthescene, Coronado Tasting Room
Next Article

Angry Pete’s goes from pop-up to drive-thru

Detroit Pizza sidles into the husk of a shuttered Taco Bell

San Diego police, firemen, and paramedics responded to the report of a dead body on a balcony outside of a room on the ninth floor of the Marriott Gaslamp Hotel on K Street shortly after 6 a.m. Wednesday, November 18.

The occupant of that room, Carol Crego, a company official for a national transportation company, discovered the body when she opened the blinds early Wednesday morning. She believes that the body may have been there all night.

After checking into her hotel room at around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, she opened the blinds to see the view and some windows for fresh air. Around 5 p.m., two of her coworkers came to the room for drinks before dinner. As they stood around, one coworker pointed out a place where someone he knew worked.

Sponsored
Sponsored

“There was nothing outside there at that time,” Crego says.

After returning to her room at about 8:30 p.m., she said she turned on the television, got ready for bed, and began watching TV. Realizing it had been cold at night the past few nights, she closed the windows.

“When I leaned down to close them I noticed a shoe and a cell phone laying outside my window. My first thought was someone may have crawled over the ledge and was out there, which was a scary thought. It was completely dark; it bothered me thinking maybe someone was peeking in on me. I quickly closed the curtain.”

Not hearing any noise, she figured someone was goofing off and had thrown a shoe and someone’s phone up there.

More than eight hours after finding the body of the deceased male, San Diego police had no additional information to offer. An email from SDPD spokesman Travis Easter stated, “Homicide was not called out to investigate the incident. If there were anything more to this incident then a press release would be issued.”

Ms. Crego of Santa Barbara was here in San Diego for the last time on official business before retiring after more than 30 years of service with her company. She said, “It’s not the way I want to remember the beginning of my retirement.”

Comments
Sponsored
Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Making Love to Goats, Rachmaninoff, and Elgar

Next Article

SDSU pres gets highest pay raise in state over last 15 years

Union-Tribune still stiffing downtown San Diego landlord?
Comments
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed Big Screen — Movie commentary Blurt — Music's inside track Booze News — San Diego spirits Classical Music — Immortal beauty Classifieds — Free and easy Cover Stories — Front-page features Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts Feast! — Food & drink reviews Feature Stories — Local news & stories Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore From the Archives — Spotlight on the past Golden Dreams — Talk of the town The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it Letters — Our inbox Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news News Ticker — News & politics Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated Poetry — The old and the new Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers Reading — The hunt for intellectuals Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds SD on the QT — Almost factual news Sheep and Goats — Places of worship Special Issues — The best of Street Style — San Diego streets have style Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves Theater — On stage in San Diego this week Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads Your Week — Daily event picks
4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs
Close

Anchor ads are not supported on this page.