Maryland man on paradise vacation to Bahamas with parents found dead hours after arriving on island

A Maryland man vacationing with his family in the Bahamas was found dead at a private beach resort hours after landing on the Caribbean island — as his mother claimed her son was “beaten to death.”Dinari McAlmont, 23, traveled to the tropical getaway with his parents on April 4, where they had been staying at the Atlantis Paradise Island resort.McAlmont, who is from Bowie, Md., was last seen having dinner with his parents when he left to grab a jacket and explore the resort just before 9 p.m., according to Fox 5 Washington DC.Resort officials questioned his mother on where he was as they accused him of spitting on several staff members inside a restaurant.“The police said they were looking for him because apparently he spat on some staff in a restaurant,” Michelle McAlmont told the outlet.The loving mother said her son’s phone location was not working before she filed a missing person’s report.The older McAlmont said she could not corroborate the resort’s allegations against her son.Officials searched the resort until McAlmont’s body was discovered on the shoreline on Paradise Island with “no vital life signs” just after 5:30 a.m.on April 5, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force.An investigation was opened into the cause of death.Officials aren’t declaring the death as a murder until the results of an autopsy are released, according to the outlet.A photo of McAlmont’s lifeless body on the beach was taken and shown to his mother, which she claimed was the hardest thing she ever had to do as her son looked unrecognizable with his injuries.“When I looked at the photo they showed me, my son was beaten; he was traumatized,” Michelle McAlmont told Bahamian outlet Eyewitness News.The grieving mother said the photo captured her son’s damaged face, with froth on his teeth and sand in his hair.“That tells me they beat my son down in the sand.

I need justice for my baby.I need justice,” she added.Michelle McAlmont said she was left w...