The friends told his sister he showered and went out that night, despite the fact that he still wasn’t feeling well. His sister said he was not feeling well when he was at the hotel pool with his friends. He died June 13 at the Terra Linda resort in Sosua, Dominican Republic, his sister Jaimie Reed told CNN. She said Caruso was enjoying part of his retirement in the Dominican Republic after selling a pizza shop in Glen Cove that he had owned with his brother for 12 years. Minutes later, she said, they received a second phone call telling them that he had died. Lisa Maria Caruso told News 12 Long Island that the family had received a phone call saying Vittorio was sick.
It’s unclear where Caruso died, but his sister-in-law Lisa Maria Caruso told CNN affiliate News 12 Long Island that he died on June 17.Ī US State Department official confirmed to CNN that a man died in the Dominican Republic in June, but did not provide details regarding his identity or the cause of death. Here’s everything we know about the 10 people who have died – and what the hotels and their relatives have said.
Officials in the Dominican Republican or the US have not said the deaths are connected. Some friends thought Donna Wade was crazy for taking her teenage son to a baseball tournament in the Dominican Republic this week and staying at the same hotel complex where several Americans died mysteriously.
