Possible Cyanide Death In Denver Hotel
Aaron Wilmot
August 14, 2008
There really has been a lot of criminal and law related news coming out of the Mile High City in recent weeks and months. In some of the more recent legal news out of Denver, Colorado, the Body of an Ottawa man from Canada was found in the Burnsley Hotel which is located near the Colorado State Building in Denver. According to Denver police officials and other authorities, the man had apparently been dead for several days before the discovery of his body was made.
The Denver medical examiners office reported that a strong odor of cyanide was present at the scene and a bottle of white powder was found near the body. After a hazardous material assessment was done on the contents of the bottle, the Denver police decided not to order evacuations. It was not clear if the man commited suicide or if he suffered any personal injury prior to the death, which was apparently fairly quick.
Police appear to suspect that Saleman Abdirahman of Ottawa died of cyanide poisoning. The bottle of white powder is being examined for identification and officials are waiting for toxicology reports after an autopsy was done on Abdirham´s on Tuesday of last week. By the way if you live in Colorado and you need superb Denver personal injury attorneys then by all means take a look at Larry Lee and his personal injury attorneys.
According to several reliable news and media sourcces, when the discovery of Abdiraham's body was reported and the odor of cyanide was found at the scene, emergency personnel were prompted to cordon off the hotel and surrounding streets for a brief period of time. There were no reports of other hotel guests or employees´ complaining of illness and no contamination was found anywhere else in the hotel in question, which is great news in an otherwise grim case. All in all, many of the details of this case are murky and there are many questions left to be answered fully. For example, what was the motive behind the death, was it a murder or suicide? What exactly is the chemical composition of the white powder which was found at the scene? Also, what precisely was this Canadian man doing in Denver at the time of his death. Did anyone have a motive for wanting him dead? Was there any possible terrorism involved here? These and the other questions should be answered soon because it has also been reported recently that FBI investigators have been called in to help with the investigation at hand.
The Denver medical examiners office reported that a strong odor of cyanide was present at the scene and a bottle of white powder was found near the body. After a hazardous material assessment was done on the contents of the bottle, the Denver police decided not to order evacuations. It was not clear if the man commited suicide or if he suffered any personal injury prior to the death, which was apparently fairly quick.
Police appear to suspect that Saleman Abdirahman of Ottawa died of cyanide poisoning. The bottle of white powder is being examined for identification and officials are waiting for toxicology reports after an autopsy was done on Abdirham´s on Tuesday of last week. By the way if you live in Colorado and you need superb Denver personal injury attorneys then by all means take a look at Larry Lee and his personal injury attorneys.
According to several reliable news and media sourcces, when the discovery of Abdiraham's body was reported and the odor of cyanide was found at the scene, emergency personnel were prompted to cordon off the hotel and surrounding streets for a brief period of time. There were no reports of other hotel guests or employees´ complaining of illness and no contamination was found anywhere else in the hotel in question, which is great news in an otherwise grim case. All in all, many of the details of this case are murky and there are many questions left to be answered fully. For example, what was the motive behind the death, was it a murder or suicide? What exactly is the chemical composition of the white powder which was found at the scene? Also, what precisely was this Canadian man doing in Denver at the time of his death. Did anyone have a motive for wanting him dead? Was there any possible terrorism involved here? These and the other questions should be answered soon because it has also been reported recently that FBI investigators have been called in to help with the investigation at hand.