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Another American tourist has died suspiciously in the Dominican Republic, bringing to more than 10 the total number of mysterious deaths in this Caribbean country.
Tracy Jerome Jester Jr., 31, died March 17 in Forsyth, Georgia as she was going on vacation with her sister to a resort, the US State Department told ABC News on Sunday.
"We can confirm the death of a US citizen in the Dominican Republic in March 2019," said a spokesman for the state department in a statement. "We offer our most sincere condolences to the family for their loss.For respect for the family during this difficult time, we have no additional information to provide."
Jester, who was suffering from lupus, would have had a "respiratory illness" after visiting the country. He had planned to return home the next morning but his sister called the night of March 16 to tell him that he was vomiting and that he could not breathe anymore, said his mother Melody Moore.
"I panicked because I could not touch my children," she recalls.
Jester's sister told her mother that he "was just kneeling and had started vomiting blood, and that he was calling Mom," Moore said. A few hours later, he would have died.
In another interview with WSB-TV, Moore said that his son had drunk a soda and told him that it "did not taste good". She is now convinced that her death is linked to more than 10 suspicious deaths related to alcohol consumption or the use of hotel amenities.
"Being a mother, I want to go where he was, where he died at last," she said. "Something is wrong, my son is gone, something is really wrong."
Recently, Khalid Adkins, a Denver resident, died in the Dominican Republic after allegedly oozing and vomiting in the restroom of an airplane while he was trying to return home.
Other victims include New York's Donette Edge Cannon, Yvette Monique Sport, Pennsylvania, David Harrison, Maryland resident, Californian Robert Wallace, Jerry Curran, Ohio resident, Miranda Schaup-Werner, resident of the Pennsylvania, Edward Nathaniel Holmes and Cynthia Day, resident of California, Robert Turlock, Leyla Cox, resident of New York, and Joseph Allen, of New Jersey.
The FBI is currently assisting the Dominican authorities in their investigations into several of the deaths, although Dominican officials have always downplayed concerns about the security of their country.
In an interview with Fox News last month, spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health, Carlos Suero, dismissed the idea that criminal acts were involved.
"Last year, we had about 14 deaths of American tourists, and no one said a word," he said. "Now everyone is doing a big deal."
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