Comedian Blair Shannon Murdered in St. Thomas

[pklopp]

Hello - sad news out of the Cincinnati area today - comedian, headliner Blair Shannon, was murdered in St. Thomas on Thursday nite. He was a regular on RCCL and had gotten off a ship that day. The Cincinnati Enquirer did a feature story on him on December 27 - very sad. I am not good at links, etc., so if you want to read the story about his death, it can be found at http://www.enquirer.com. Prayers go out to his family.

Peggy

[ORANGEinINDY]

WOW... never saw him... but WOW

 

Posting the links is not that hard... highlight it in the top of your browser and go to edit and click "copy" and in your message go to edit and click "paste"

 

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051227/ENT/512270310/-1/all

[lvssushi]

Wow...truly sad. Condolences to his family...especially his daughter...

[EMTRa]

What a horrible tragedy!

Our prayers go out to his family ..especially his daughter.

[Cincy-David]

Blair Shannon

Can't beleive what I just heard... As I was sitting here typing, they just had a story on the news that Blair Shannon was killed by gunshot in the Virgin islands. Blair is an old acquaintence of mine who is a professional comic that has primarily worked the cruise ship circuit for the past years, including many RCCL cruises.

 

He is from Cincinnati and still resides here with his only daughter.

 

Apparently, he was on a beach somewhere in the Virgin Islands and was shot. Not a lot of details.

 

He and I became acquainted years ago when he was first starting in the comedy business. He would rotinely work a lot of the charity projects that I was working on to raise funds for the Summer Camps that I used to work at. His wife was diagnosed with Lukemia (a foundation I worked with) many years ago and passed away almost 8 years ago.

 

For those of you who are frequent cruisers, you have probably seen him. He has done lots of work for RCCL.

 

If I hear any more details, I'll let you know. How shocking is this?

 

Here is a link to a story about Blair that was recently in our major daily newspaper. http://search.cincinnati.com/sp?sId=6149910&cId=3052530&wId=6859&rNum=1&url=htt p%3A%2F%2Fnews.enquirer.com%2Fapps%2Fpbcs.dll%2Far ticle%3FAID%3D%2F20051227%2FENT%2F512270310%2F-1%2Fall&aff=5

 

Here is a link from a VI news source: http://www.virginislandsdailynews.co...me?id=12368355

[hobo1937]

We were so sorry to read about this tragedy.

 

We had the opportunity to see him on the Vision Alaska/Coastal cruise last Sept and really enjoyed his performance. He seemed like a genuinely nice person in addition to being a great entertainer. Our prayers go out to his family especially his daughter.

[enyaw]

What a talented man! I remember him from my Radiance Alaska Cruise 2 years ago. He was cruising with his daughter---and he was so excited to show her Alaska. I remember bumping into him at the various ports of call. Prayers go out to his family.

[Travelgrrl]

I saw him and he was great. One joke I remember was when he said he wasn't all that jazzed about fishing (because after all that work, all you ended up with was a doggone fish), and he might be interested if there was a whole cow swimming around in the water.

 

Also makes me a little scared of St. Thomas - though I know rationally that violence can happen anywhere...:(

[lovetocruiserccl]

I.m sorry to hear of his death. My prayer's are with his family. He was a very funny guy. Made me laugh until I would cry. We saw him on several occassions on RCCL. So sad.

[negc]

What a terrible tragedy and a great loss. We saw Blair when he was a featured comedian on Sovereign in 2000. At the time we commented that he was far better and funnier than many so-called "name" comics that have entertained us on land or at sea.:(