Dailymail.Com – An Alabama mother-son duo were kicked off a cruise ship after they were allegedly caught on video committing a vile act against a senior citizen passenger.
Kelli Lyn Ryan, 49, and her son, Dylan Ryan, 23, of Huntsville, were accused of ‘open-hand’ slapping another passenger said to be over the age of 65 on the MSC Seascape cruise out of Miami, Florida, which had 6,000 passengers onboard.
Surveillance footage obtained by police allegedly showed Kelli slap the victim, whose identity remains unknown, inside the ship’s two-deck theater after an argument broke out around 9:30pm on October 6.
Her son was also seen in the video striking the much older victim several times, the ship’s deputy chief of security told police, according to Local10.
Kelli Lyn Ryan (pictured), 49, and her son, Dylan Ryan, 23, of Huntsville, were accused of ‘open-hand’ slapping another passenger said to be over the age of 65 on the MSC cruise out of Miami, Florida
Dylan was ejected from the nearly 6,000 passenger boat for ‘excessive behavior’ after the cruise stopped at its first port in Falmouth, Jamaica, police reports reveal
Police said Dylan was kicked off the ship the following day for his part in the altercation when the cruised docked n Falmouth, Jamaica, for ‘excessive behavior’.
But the 23-year-old’s mother was permitted to stay on the ship as it made stops in the Grand Cayman Island, Mexico and MSC Ocean Cay, which is the cruise ship company’s private island in the Bahamas.
Nearly a week later, when the Seascape returned to Miami, Kelli was arrested and charged with battery on a person 65 or older.
However, the 49-year-old no longer appears to be in jail and her whereabouts is unknown, Local10 reported.
Further details of the altercation have yet to be released.
MSC Cruises have not publicly released a statement about the incident either.
Cruise worker accused of stabbing a 75-year-old and 2 guards with scissors on vessel bound for Alaska
By Julia Marnin, McClatchy News
Updated: May 8, 2024
Anchorage Daily News – A newly hired cruise employee was arrested by the FBI after federal prosecutors said he repeatedly stabbed a woman receiving medical attention on the ship and two security guards who tried to stop him.
The attack involving medical scissors unfolded May 6 after the worker, a 35-year-old South African man, was caught trying to deploy a lifeboat from a Norwegian Cruise Line ship west of Vancouver Island, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska.
Ntando Sogoni boarded the Norwegian Encore a day earlier in Seattle, Washington, an affidavit says. The ship was scheduled to make three stops in Alaska and one in British Columbia before it was to return to Seattle on May 12, according to the affidavit …
