Police Investigate Hotel Lobby Scuffle

The Four Seasons Hotel Boston usually sees the likes of celebrities and professional athletes as they check in to the swanky joint, but this past Sunday morning, the hotel employees were witness to a much stranger check-in. It seems that Anthony Michael Giannone, 36 of South Boston, wandered, or as the Herald put it, "staggered" into the hotel's lobby around 5:30a.m., and went on make a scene. The security guards were all over him and apparently got into some sort of scuffle with Giannone, who then collapsed on the floor and later died at New England Medical Center. Boston Police are obviously looking into the matter further and the hotel stated that Giannone was neither staying or working at the Four Seasons. (Bostonist recalls a shooting right in front of the Four Seasons on Boylston Street a few months ago, but it was kept pretty quiet, with a brief mention on WBZ-4.) This sort of thing never happens a few streets over at the Westin Hotel, which was sold today to LaSalle Hotel Properities. They claim it will keep the Westin name; you may recall the LaSalle name in Boston recently when it took over the Onyx Hotel near the TD Banknorth Garden.