PORT EVERGLADES, Fla., Feb. 26 (UPI) -- A 70-year-old former U.S. Marine is being credited with saving a group of Carnival Cruise passengers by killing an armed robber in Costa Rica.
The Legend passengers were taking a private tour of the town of Limon when three armed men confronted them, the New York Daily News reported.
Passengers said the unidentified former Marine took immediate action, grabbing one of the gunmen and snapping his neck.
"Thank God, he's a hero," said Tony Barry, a New York native who lives in Florida. "Everybody thought it was great what he did."
"It was a horror," Bill Phillips of Long Island told the newspaper. "From the moment I stepped off the ship, I knew it was very dangerous."
Crewmembers reportedly warned passengers about the dangers of the port town, the Daily News said.
"Carnival knew it was a dangerous place, so I don't understand why they even took us there," says Louis Cuglietto, of Paramus, N.J.
No charges were filed against the former Marine, the newspaper said.
