A 21-year-old sailor was acquitted at a military court-martial on charges accusing him of setting the devastating 2020 fire on the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard.
Seaman Recruit Ryan Mays, 21, is on trial at a San Diego Navy base, accused of setting the 2020 fire that wrecked the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard.
SAN DIEGO (AP) A key witness in the Navy’s case against a junior sailor accused of setting the fire that destroyed a U.S. warship last year in San Diego testified that he is certain that he saw the suspect in the area where the flames ignited and another says the suspect mumbled “I’m guilty” on the way to the brig.