
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 21, 1991                   TAG: 9103210194
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-10   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

GUITARIST'S SON FALLS OUT WINDOW, DIES

The 5-year-old son of rock guitarist Eric Clapton died Wednesday after he fell out the window of a 53rd-floor apartment, police said.

Conor Clapton fell shortly after 11 a.m. and landed on the roof of a four-story building next door, according to Officer Kim Royster.

The boy's mother, Italian television star Lory Del Santo, and a housekeeper were in the apartment when he fell, Royster said.

It was not known where Eric Clapton was when the accident occurred, but he was examined and released from the emergency room at Lenox Hill Hospital afterward, said hospital spokeswoman Ann Warner.

The housekeeper had just finished cleaning the window pane and had left it open to air out the room when the boy ran past him and fell out the 4-by-6-foot window, according to police.

- Associated Press

Keywords:
FATALITY

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