Crew members on a Royal Caribbean cruise line negligently served a Moreno Valley man 33 alcoholic drinks within a span of several hours at the start of a December 2024 voyage — and when he turned violent, security guards unleashed three cans of pepper spray, zip-tied him and held him down with so much force that he stopped breathing and died, the man’s fiancée alleges in a wrongful-death lawsuit.

The federal lawsuit, filed Friday, Dec. 5, in U.S. District Court, seeks an unspecified amount of monetary damages in the death of 35-year-old Michael Virgil.

“(Virgil’s) incident and death was directly caused by his intoxicated state and by Royal Caribbean’s crew members’ over-serving alcohol when they knew or should have known that (Virgil) was in an intoxicated state,” the lawsuit says.

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