MD man killed at Atlantis, Bahamas

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Our family is going there in two weeks. Great.

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Anonymous wrote:People are so insane. It’s truly incredible that you’re all like well, he got what was coming to him.

What if he was having some kind of episode? What if it was a misunderstanding? You think it’s okay for hotel staff to go beat someone up because of some altercation? That’s insane.

I don't think anyone is saying he got what he deserved. They're saying "this sounds like something crazy precipitated the attack, not just a tourist walking to his room getting randomly jumped and beaten to death." And you're the only person suggesting that the attack was perpetrated by hotel staff!

It sounds like he was either falling down drunk or, like you said, having some kind of mental health episode. Whichever it was, it led to him physically assaulting multiple people inside the restaurant before he was kicked out, and then [we don't know what he did after being kicked out, but] when they went to look for him they found his body. The fact that he was a man who was kicked out of a restaurant that same night for spitting on multiple people is relevant to the narrative, not just "MD man".

Does it really sound like that? Mom and Dad let him wander off to the room alone in either of these scenarios while they finished their dinner?

I mean the alternative is that he was normal at dinner, told mom he was going to get his jacket and take a walk, and on the way out/ unbeknownst to his mom/ he spat on the servers. And then, while he was being actively searched for by hotel security, he was found beaten to death. The spitting/ hotel security incident happened prior to him being found dead so it doesn’t sound to me like a cover up. It sounds like he was assaulting people who worked there and then ended up dead not long after. Maybe he approached someone on the beach and tried the same thing and it ended badly. Who knows. But I would believe that his mother might not have seen him spitting on people.

The quote from the story is the mother would not corroborate the spitting. Didn't deny it. Didn't say, he would never. Also hard to believe doing something like this in a restaurant wouldn't attract a lot of attention and could possibly be mixed. I agree your alternative is possible though.

Another alternative is this person behaves this way and mom and dad know it and don't care or are just sick of it and wanted to enjoy the rest of their meal in peace.

I don’t think the spitting happened in the restaurant. The security said they were looking for him because of an incident of spitting on employees I think it happened earlier

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure why people even go. Just stick to Hawaii or Florida. We have amazing beaches in the US.

The islands in the Caribbean are beautiful. For me, Hawaii is not worth the long trip from the east coast. Florida is not attractive at all and it doesn’t have all that paradise island has in one area

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Anonymous wrote:Nassau/Paradise Island has had warnings for a while now. It’s scary. I am debating staying on the boat this summer on our Disney Cruise when it stops there. The Atlantis excursion is too pricey anyway.

We have taken two Disney cruises - with family, not my idea - and for the second one we stayed on the boat instead of going into Nassau. It was lovely, much less crowded and there was plenty to do.

Because heavens to Betsy that YOU would ever want to go on a Disney cruise unless someone else made you do it!

Jerk.

I know. The Disney cruise must have insulted their highly cultured sensitivities..."What do you mean no cheese-and-crackers art gallery opening? Where am I going to where my little black dress?" lol

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🚨Going to Bahamas ⚠️
Security Alert - U.S. Embassy Nassau, The Bahamas (April 9, 2025)
Location: Nassau and Paradise Island beaches, The Bahamas
Event: The U.S. Embassy in Nassau advises U.S. citizens of the risks of renting jet skis in The Bahamas:
Nassau jet ski operators have raped and sexually assaulted U.S. citizen women:
2 U.S. citizen women reported rapes in the past month.
3 rapes were reported in 2024.
Sexual assaults on U.S. citizen women also occur.
Women victims reported that male jet ski operators picked them up from downtown Nassau and Paradise Island beaches.
This includes the area from Junkanoo Beach to Saunders Beach and Cabbage Beach.
The victims said they were raped and assaulted on isolated islands near New Providence.

Since August 2024, 4 U.S. citizens were hospitalized with injuries from jet ski accidents. Of these, 2 needed emergency evacuations to the United States due to their injuries.
Due to security risks, U.S. government employees working in The Bahamas are prohibited from renting and using jet skis on New Providence and Paradise islands.

Actions to Take:
•Avoid renting jet skis in The Bahamas.
•Be aware of your surroundings.
•Stay alert in public restrooms near Nassau beaches.
•Always follow local weather and marine alerts.

[Anonymous]

^^^^

See. Nassau/Paradise Island are SO sketchy.

Everything new I hear just confirms we will NOT get off the boat for our cruise. Hard pass.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure why people even go. Just stick to Hawaii or Florida. We have amazing beaches in the US.

The islands in the Caribbean are beautiful. For me, Hawaii is not worth the long trip from the east coast. Florida is not attractive at all and it doesn’t have all that paradise island has in one area

DP here. There are some fabulous beaches in Florida but I don't need to advertise them. IYKYK. There are also MUCH nicer places in the Caribbean than Nassau/Paradise Island. Like, I can quickly think of a dozen off the top of my head that I would rank above it.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure why people even go. Just stick to Hawaii or Florida. We have amazing beaches in the US.

The islands in the Caribbean are beautiful. For me, Hawaii is not worth the long trip from the east coast. Florida is not attractive at all and it doesn’t have all that paradise island has in one area

Agree totally and we have been going to the Caribbean practically every year for a decade--until we were victims of an armed robbery on one of those lovely islands. When you start digging around, you will see that most of the islands have serious crime perpetuated against tourists that rarely makes it into the news outside those countries, or even within those countries.

[Anonymous]

Very frightening.

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spitting on people? who does that?

i have seen it happen outside a target in a parking lot ... once.

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Anonymous wrote:🚨Going to Bahamas ⚠️
Security Alert - U.S. Embassy Nassau, The Bahamas (April 9, 2025)
Location: Nassau and Paradise Island beaches, The Bahamas
Event: The U.S. Embassy in Nassau advises U.S. citizens of the risks of renting jet skis in The Bahamas:
Nassau jet ski operators have raped and sexually assaulted U.S. citizen women:
2 U.S. citizen women reported rapes in the past month.
3 rapes were reported in 2024.
Sexual assaults on U.S. citizen women also occur.
Women victims reported that male jet ski operators picked them up from downtown Nassau and Paradise Island beaches.
This includes the area from Junkanoo Beach to Saunders Beach and Cabbage Beach.
The victims said they were raped and assaulted on isolated islands near New Providence.

Since August 2024, 4 U.S. citizens were hospitalized with injuries from jet ski accidents. Of these, 2 needed emergency evacuations to the United States due to their injuries.
Due to security risks, U.S. government employees working in The Bahamas are prohibited from renting and using jet skis on New Providence and Paradise islands.

Actions to Take:
•Avoid renting jet skis in The Bahamas.
•Be aware of your surroundings.
•Stay alert in public restrooms near Nassau beaches.
•Always follow local weather and marine alerts.

Wow! Shocking and sad.
Thank you for posting this.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually I just read an nbc article that’s now saying he died of drowning

"Police said that a post-mortem examination revealed that McAlmont died as a result of drowning.

"Further, police are still awaiting the forensic toxicology analysis, and investigations are ongoing," police said. "That said, foul play is not suspected at this time."

However, the 23-year-old's mother, Michelle McAlmont, told Eyewitness News Bahamas on Tuesday that her son's face looked beaten when authorities showed her his body."


Something VERY weird is going on with this story.

He was went to get a jacket
He didn't come back
Worker said he spit on an employee
Found beaten on the beach foaming from the mouth
Then autopsy says he drown? But washed up nicely on the beach?

Yeah right.

You can choke on water and have foam around your mouth if you are drowning. If for example he inhaled a lot of water , was unconscious on the shore, and the choked / vomited as his lungs were filled with water.

And no one found him for HOURS? A busy beachfront like Atlantis? I still don't buy it.

I could be wrong but I thought it was pretty late into the night that this was happening and the beach was closed? Feel free to correct me.

Then why does the story say he left the dinner table to go get a jacket from the room and never returned? It’s odd that the story seems to be changing.

I don’t see why that story doesn’t make sense? He left the dinner table to get his jacket and take a walk. (I didn’t see what time this was but could have easily been 830 or even 9, at which point it’s dark and the beach is closed). He spat on restaurant staff on his way out. Security started looking around for him due to this. He was found a couple hours later drowned on the likely deserted beach. Sounded like he was having some major issues that evening.

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Anonymous wrote:People are so insane. It’s truly incredible that you’re all like well, he got what was coming to him.

What if he was having some kind of episode? What if it was a misunderstanding? You think it’s okay for hotel staff to go beat someone up because of some altercation? That’s insane.

I don't think anyone is saying he got what he deserved. They're saying "this sounds like something crazy precipitated the attack, not just a tourist walking to his room getting randomly jumped and beaten to death." And you're the only person suggesting that the attack was perpetrated by hotel staff!

It sounds like he was either falling down drunk or, like you said, having some kind of mental health episode. Whichever it was, it led to him physically assaulting multiple people inside the restaurant before he was kicked out, and then [we don't know what he did after being kicked out, but] when they went to look for him they found his body. The fact that he was a man who was kicked out of a restaurant that same night for spitting on multiple people is relevant to the narrative, not just "MD man".

Does it really sound like that? Mom and Dad let him wander off to the room alone in either of these scenarios while they finished their dinner?

I mean the alternative is that he was normal at dinner, told mom he was going to get his jacket and take a walk, and on the way out/ unbeknownst to his mom/ he spat on the servers. And then, while he was being actively searched for by hotel security, he was found beaten to death. The spitting/ hotel security incident happened prior to him being found dead so it doesn’t sound to me like a cover up. It sounds like he was assaulting people who worked there and then ended up dead not long after. Maybe he approached someone on the beach and tried the same thing and it ended badly. Who knows. But I would believe that his mother might not have seen him spitting on people.

The quote from the story is the mother would not corroborate the spitting. Didn't deny it. Didn't say, he would never. Also hard to believe doing something like this in a restaurant wouldn't attract a lot of attention and could possibly be mixed. I agree your alternative is possible though.

Another alternative is this person behaves this way and mom and dad know it and don't care or are just sick of it and wanted to enjoy the rest of their meal in peace.

I don’t think the spitting happened in the restaurant. The security said they were looking for him because of an incident of spitting on employees I think it happened earlier

So you think he spat on reataurant employees earlier in the day and then returned to the restaurant for dinner?? Because the article states he spat on the restaurant employees. If that’s the case no wonder he ran off during dinner.

[Anonymous]

Agree this sounds like a terrible incident, but also that it involved circumstances that one should try to avoid when on vacation in another country - such as being out too late, getting unnecessarily involved in negative interactions with locals, etc. Our cruise is stopping in Nassaau next week and we had already read the elevated State Dept. advisory which has been the case for a long time. There is nothing about this story that would make us cancel our plans to get off the ship -- not sure if it will be just shopping at the market just off the boat (which is cordoned off with only cruise passengers and cruise and port employees allowed), or heading to one of the local resorts. If the latter, we always try to book with a cruise sponsored excursion which always includes supervision throughout your time off the boat, or we find something super close to the ship. Either way, we stay in well-lit and populated public areas and avoiding anything secluded or off the beaten path. Also, don't forget to leave plenty of time to get back so the ship doesn't leave without you!

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Anonymous wrote:🚨Going to Bahamas ⚠️
Security Alert - U.S. Embassy Nassau, The Bahamas (April 9, 2025)
Location: Nassau and Paradise Island beaches, The Bahamas
Event: The U.S. Embassy in Nassau advises U.S. citizens of the risks of renting jet skis in The Bahamas:
Nassau jet ski operators have raped and sexually assaulted U.S. citizen women:
2 U.S. citizen women reported rapes in the past month.
3 rapes were reported in 2024.
Sexual assaults on U.S. citizen women also occur.
Women victims reported that male jet ski operators picked them up from downtown Nassau and Paradise Island beaches.
This includes the area from Junkanoo Beach to Saunders Beach and Cabbage Beach.
The victims said they were raped and assaulted on isolated islands near New Providence.

Since August 2024, 4 U.S. citizens were hospitalized with injuries from jet ski accidents. Of these, 2 needed emergency evacuations to the United States due to their injuries.
Due to security risks, U.S. government employees working in The Bahamas are prohibited from renting and using jet skis on New Providence and Paradise islands.

Actions to Take:
•Avoid renting jet skis in The Bahamas.
•Be aware of your surroundings.
•Stay alert in public restrooms near Nassau beaches.
•Always follow local weather and marine alerts.

Not surprising to me. I traveled to Nassau/Paradise Island 20+ years ago with my best friend when I was in my early 20s. We had 2 incidents on that trip where a sketchy male seemed to be threatening us/looking at us in lascivious manner. One was a taxi driver taking us to a restaurant; the other a hotel employee who came to our room when we called about the television not working. It was clear to us both that these men were ill-intentioned and if either of these incidents had been late at night or somewhere remote, both of those guys would have probably harmed us in some way.

I have never wanted to return.