Boy, 14, Apparently Drinks Himself to Death
A 14-year-old boy apparently drank himself to death aboard a Caribbean cruise ship, authorities said Tuesday.
Hayman Ronald Lucas of Elmont, who would have been a ninth-grader this fall, drank the equivalent of six tumblers--about a bottle’s worth--of tequila and rum in a two-hour period while partying with some other teen-agers, authorities in South Florida said.
Hayman was traveling with his father and stepmother on a week’s cruise out of Miami aboard the Royal Caribbean’s Majesty of the Seas. They were asleep at the time of the late-night incident.
Florida and federal law enforcement officials Tuesday said they were trying to determine whether there was any criminal action that led to the death.
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