Cruz, shot himself in a Honolulu hotel–Kahala Hotel & Resort–according to a Navy release.
The career Naval officer had enlisted in the Navy about a month after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
About 100 people were gathered into a ballroom for hours while Cruz remained barricaded in a fourth-floor room. Police said Cruz fired through the door multiple times but no one was injured.
The center he was assigned to provides operational support for Pearl Harbor homeported submarines, their crews, families and staff of Submarine Squadrons One and Seven, Navytimes reported, adding:
“Every member of our Navy team is important; this is a painful time for our local community and the U.S. Navy,” Cmdr. Cindy Fields, a spokeswoman for the said.
The Navy says an outbreak of coronavirus aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific has forced it to divert to Guam, where all 5,000 aboard will undergo testing. The USS Theodore Roosevelt remains “operationally capable,” according to the acting secretary of the Navy, Thomas Modly. The carrier is the first U.S. Navy ship to have a reported an outbreak while at.
Navy sailor who shot himself in a Hawaii hotel was from New York The Associated Press 8 hours ago In this Nov. 15, 2020, file photo, people are seen on the beach and in the water in front of the Kahala Hotel & Resort in Honolulu. (Jennifer Sinco Kelleher/AP) HONOLULU The U.S. Navy sailor who shot and killed himself at a luxury Hawaii resort was assigned to the Naval Submarine Support Center in Pearl Harbor.
Lt. Cmdr. Russell Cruz, 40, of New York, died from a self-inflected gunshot wound in a room at the Kahala Hotel & Resort after a standoff with Honolulu police over the weekend.
By WILLIAM COLE | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: April 15, 2021 HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) The Navy has confirmed that the sailor who died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Sunday at the Kahala Hotel & Resort was a lieutenant commander assigned to the Naval Submarine Support Center at Pearl Harbor. Russell Cruz, 40, of New York, had been previously identified by the Honolulu Medical Examiner s office as the individual involved in the barricade situation in which several shots were reportedly fired through a hotel room door. The Naval Submarine Support Center provides operational support for Pearl Harbor home-ported submarines, their crews, families, and the staffs of Submarine Squadrons One and Seven, the U.S. Pacific Fleet submarine force said.
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