A woman who went over a balcony on a cruise ship near Southern California’s Santa Catalina Island died by suicide, the Los Angeles County medical examiner said Thursday.<\/p>\n
The woman, identified as 24-year-old Briana Miller<\/a>, died April 27 on a Carnival Cruise Line ship<\/a> off the Los Angeles County coast. She went over the balcony of her stateroom on the Carnival Firenze and landed on a deck below, according to the cruise line.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAn investigation was underway after a woman appeared to have fallen over the balcony of her Carnival Cruise Line room and died. This video was broadcast on the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 28, 2026.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Miller was traveling with her family, who alerted the crew of the incident.<\/p>\n The cause of death was blunt trauma, indicating some type of forceful impact, according to the medical examiner’s office. <\/p>\n “Carnival\u2019s Care Team is supporting the guest\u2019s family, and our thoughts and prayers are with them and their loved ones,” spokesperson Julie Leonardi said in an earlier statement.<\/p>\n The FBI confirmed to NBC News it is investigating the death of the passenger.<\/p>\n The ship embarked on a four-night cruise that included stops in Catalina Island and Ensenada, but the tragedy occurred before it reached Catalina Island.<\/p>\n The 1,000-foot-long Carnival Firenze is an Italian-themed ship with Italy-themed bars and restaurants. The company’s website describes the “Terrazza staterooms” as “a stylish, comfy place to unwind from all the fun,” and includes access to a private deck.<\/p>\n \tIf you or someone you know is in crisis, call\u00a0or text\u00a0988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline\u00a0or chat live at\u00a0988lifeline.org<\/a>. You can also visit\u00a0SpeakingOfSuicide.com\/resources<\/a>\u00a0for additional\u00a0support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who went over a balcony on a cruise ship near Southern California’s Santa Catalina Island died…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[32604,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-384031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-catalina-island","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}