Navy, Ghana police continue to investigate death of 2 sailors By Charlie Coon, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Friday, January 11, 2008
The bodies of two U.S. sailors found dead on New Year’s morning in a Ghana hotel room were examined by a coroner and flown back to the U.S., but the Navy is declining to say how the sailors died.
Seaman Lonnie Lee Davis Jr., 35, of Riverdale, Ga., and Petty Officer 1st Class Patrick Brendan Mack, 22, of Warren, Mich., were discovered by a fellow sailor who was staying at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra, the Ghanaian capital.
Davis and Mack were on liberty from the USS Fort McHenry, which was in port at Tema, located about 18 miles east of Accra. The Fort McHenry is the flagship of a U.S. military presence in the Gulf of Guinea.
Lt. Patrick Foughty, a spokesman with the Naples, Italy-based 6th Fleet, said the bodies of the two sailors were examined Saturday at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Foughty said the Navy would not publicly release the preliminary results of the autopsy.
“It’s part of an investigation, and since it is ongoing we want to make sure we have everything together,” Foughty said. “We want to make sure we make the right assessment as to what happened.”
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