Record producer, 23, found dead on dead in private beach in The Bahamas after being accused of ‘spitting on staff’
A music producer from Maryland was found dead in the Bahamas just hours after allegedly being reported to the police for spitting on restaurant workers at the five-star resort where he was staying.
The family told Eyewitness News Bahamas that Dinari McAlmont, 23, traveled to the Bahamas with his parents on Friday and stayed at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island, close to the capital, Nassau.
Around 12 hours after touching down for the family getaway, officials said the McAlmont’s body was found at approximately with “no vital life signs” Saturday on the shoreline of Paradise Island.
The Royal Bahamas Police Force Commissioner Shanta Knowles said that authorities are awaiting autopsy results before providing further information to the public, and the cause of McAlmont’s death was not immediately clear. An investigation is underway.
The family told FOX 5 that McAlmont was last seen leaving dinner to grab a coat and explore the resort just before 9 p.m. the evening he arrived in the Bahamas.
The family said that resort officials came to the parent’s room and questioned them about his whereabouts.
They say that staff accused McAlmont of spitting on several workers inside one of the hotel’s restaurants.
“The police said they were looking for him because apparently he spat on some staff in a restaurant,” Michelle McAlmont, the victim’s mother, told the outlet.
She said she could not verify the hotel staff’s reports.
McAlmont’s mother said she attempted to text him hours before his body was found and said her son’s phone location was not working.
After scouring the resort and failing to find him, the family said they filed a missing person’s report.
Resort staff again returned to McAlmont’s parent’s room, they said, this time to notify them that their son’s body had been found.
The victim’s mother told Eyewitness News her son’s face appeared “traumatized” after identifying his remains in a photograph, alleging he appeared to have been beaten “down in the sand.”
She said his son’s face appeared damaged, with sand on his hair and on his teeth.
