1 death after an attack involving a hammer, a knife on a fishing boat, according to the Coast Guard

Federal agents are investigating after a fisherman on a Virginia-based fishing vessel was killed by another crew member armed with a knife and hammer, officials said. .

Franklin Freddy Meave Vazquez, 27, a Mexican national, is charged with attacking three crew members while his captain, Captain Billy Haver, was sailing about 55 miles off the coast of Nantucket. Vazquez faces a murder leader and an attempted murder leader, according to the US Attorney's Office Andrew Lelling.

"It is further alleged that Vazquez then climbed onto the ship's mast while the others on board tried to capture him," Lelling's office wrote.

A Boston-based spokesman said the coastguard had received a distress call Sunday afternoon from the trawler 83 feet, reporting the attack.

A German cruise ship, the Mein Schiff 6, responded to an emergency call and embarked two wounded crew members. The ship's doctor declared a dead person.

The Virginia-based Seaford trawler, the cruise ship and a coastal coastguard headed for Boston. The coastguard placed a law enforcement team on board the fishing vessel.

Captain Billy Haver docked in Boston Monday night. Federal investigators were seen wearing clean costumes and boarding the crime scene.

Vazquez faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment if he is convicted of murder.

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