Her grandfather Salvatore Anello testified that he picked Chloe up and put her feet on the windowsill, not realizing that the window was open. Chloe slipped from his grasp and fell about 150 feet to her death on the pier below.
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Alan Wiegand and Kimberly Schultz Wiegand, of South Bend, Indiana, were on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in Puerto Rico when their daughter, Chloe, fell out of an open window from the ship's 11th story while she was in the care of her grandfather, Salvatore Anello.
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Alan Wiegand and Kimberly Schultz-Wiegand sued Royal Caribbean Cruises after the July 2019 death of their daughter, Chloe Wiegand. The toddler fell from her grandfather's arms and through an open window on a cruise ship docked in San Juan, Puerto Rico, plummeting 150 feet to the pier below.
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Speaking from their home ahead of the service, Cameron's parents William and Shari Robbins, both 54, told The New York Post they were aware of the impact their “funny and kind-hearted” son had made on people following updates of the tragic incident believed to have cut his life short.