Mr Velasco reportedly told investigators he believed the masked sailor was Mr Mays. Prosecutors showed an Instagram post made by Mr Mays about a month before the fire showing him standing shirtless inside a Navy vessel, along with the caption "I love the smell of Napalm in the morning," a reference to Francis Ford Coppola's film about the Vietnam War, Apocalypse Now.Īnother sailor, Seaman Kenji Velasco, also told NCIS agents that he had seen another sailor wearing a mask and carrying a bucket down to Lower V just before the fire. Officials within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service began looking into sailors with connections to Lower V, which led them to Mr Mays. They discovered a container which had held a petroleum distillate, which is believed to have been used to start the fire. The ATF, which investigated the claims, determined that the fire began in a section of the ship known as Lower V. Investigators found that five fire stations on the ship had been tampered with prior to the fire, according to court documents. The damage was so extensive that the Navy eventually decided to scrap the ship. More than 60 sailors and civilians suffered minor injuries as well as heat exhaustion and complications from smoke inhalation.
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The ship was undergoing a $250m upgrade at the shipyards in San Diego, California when the fire broke out, scattering the 160 sailors and officers who were working on the ship at the time. The fire burned for nearly five days, becoming the worst non-combat blaze on a Navy warship in the modern era. Mr Mays has denied any involvement in the fire, and his defence team pushed back against the allegations that he hated the Navy any more than any other sailor who was told to clean decks. Prosecutors alleged that Mr Mays lied to his family and friends about his SEAL training, and that he developed a deep resentment for the Navy after he was reassigned to deck work - cleaning duties - on the USS Richard Bonhomme.
The prosecutors painted a different picture of Mr Mays a "disgruntled" young sailor who left SEAL training after five days and was reassigned with a chip on his shoulder and a disdain for authority. Mr Mays's defence team maintains that the sailor had nothing to do with the blaze, and pointed to the lack of physical evidence connecting him to the fire as proof. If he is convicted, he could be subject to court martial and face up to life in prison or even the death penalty. The sailor is currently undergoing an Article 32 hearing, which is a preliminary hearing in the US military justice system.
Attorneys battled on Monday over US Navy Seaman Apprentice Ryan Sawyer Mays and the role he allegedly played in the 2020 burning of the USS Bonhomme Richard.
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