FBI Investigates Suspected Homicide Aboard MSC Seascape After Ship Returns to Galveston
Fox News and CBS News reported that the MSC Seascape cruise ship was ordered back to Galveston after a guest death prompted an FBI investigation, and that federal authorities have taken a man into custody.
A guest death aboard the MSC Seascape cruise ship prompted an FBI investigation, and the ship was ordered back to Galveston, Texas, one day into a weeklong voyage to Mexico and Honduras, according to a Fox News report.
Fox News described the matter as a suspected homicide. Its summary did not say who ordered the return, when the death occurred, or what investigators have found so far.
CBS News reported separately that federal authorities have taken a man into custody in connection with a "suspected murder" aboard the MSC Seascape. The CBS News summary describes the custody as federal but does not name the agency that made the arrest. Its CBS News video report credits Jason Allen with reporting the development.
The two accounts use different terms, homicide in the Fox News report and murder in the CBS News report. Neither summary states whether the custody and the guest death are the same matter, although both concern the MSC Seascape.
The CBS News summary did not name the man taken into custody or say what charges, if any, he faces. The Fox News summary did not state a cause of death. Neither the Fox News nor the CBS News summary gives a time for the death, the custody, or the ship's arrival in Galveston.
The Fox News headline refers to a "sudden return to Texas," and its summary places the ship's return one day into the voyage. The materials reviewed for this report do not identify an author for either item, and the account above reflects only what those two reports say.
Sources: Fox News: FBI investigates suspected homicide aboard MSC Seascape cruise ship after sudden return to Texas; CBS News: FBI investigates suspected murder aboard cruise ship.