Dominican Official: Maryland Woman Likely Died ‘From the Shock of Seeing the Person Beside Her Dead’

Nathaniel Holmes and Cynthia Day in a file photo. They were found dead in their Dominican Republic hotel room on May 30, 2019. Cynthia Day/Facebook

A Dominican Republic official said that an American tourist found dead on May 30 likely died from the shock of seeing her fiancé die.

Cynthia Day, 49, and Nathaniel Holmes, 63, were found dead in their room at the Grand Bahia Principe in La Romana. The couple was from Maryland.