Mentally ill man reportedly attacks & injures elderly woman
Elderly woman hospitalised
In a social media post on September 9, 2026, Maris Hodge-Wright reported that the incident occurred two weeks ago as her tenants, a senior woman and her younger roommate, waited outside their rental home for a church bus to take them to an evening service.
Hodge-Wright said the young man approached from behind the house, mumbled something, then struck the elderly woman in the back with a "hard object" he was carrying in a bag, knocking her to the ground and causing facial injuries that required hospital treatment and stitches.
The landlord continued that the mentally ill man then turned toward the younger woman in an apparent attempt to attack her as well, but she managed to escape and call the police.
The suspect subsequently fled the scene and was not arrested.
Both women, according to Hodge-Wright, now report symptoms consistent with post‑traumatic stress, including hypervigilance and nightmares, and say they feel unsafe living alone at the property where the attacker approached from the rear of the house.
Landlord: ‘This was not his first attack’
The landlord said she has been told this was not the man’s first violent incident, alleging that one prior attack targeted a young mother carrying her child.
Hodge-Wright also pointed to a separate, long‑standing problem in Road Town, where members of the Road Town Methodist Church say they have been “terrorised for years” by another young man known to attack people—including, she says, her own grandson.
In a strongly worded appeal on Facebook, the landlord argued that both the alleged attacker and his victims are failed by a system that does not provide safe housing and treatment for people with severe mental illness, while also failing to deliver justice and protection to those who are harmed.
“For a country that is by no means poor, and having one of the best economies in the Caribbean, we can do better; we must do better for those individuals who cannot help themselves and put our communities at risk,” she said.
Hodge-Wright is urging politicians gearing up for the next election to publicly outline plans to address the needs of severely mentally disturbed individuals and to improve community safety.
“Please do something before someone is severely hurt or killed.”
Hodge-Wright's message to decision‑makers is direct and addresses the intersection of mental health care, public safety, and justice so that vulnerable residents are neither left to deteriorate on the streets nor allowed to endanger others without intervention.
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57 Responses to “Mentally ill man reportedly attacks & injures elderly woman”
Why is he nameless in the public news article,...Johhn Q Public should be made fully aware of this threat to our lives...his name for starters and location ,residence and hang out...has he been arrested and confined....
If you attack him you will be on the receiving end of the law
Police can't do nothing about them but carry them hospital while you foot the bill for your injuries.
All I know I will gladly go jail after I mess him up
Mental people know who to mess with
Once you show you not putting up with their crap they know not to mess with you
I wish I was around when he attacked them woman . I was busting he 2 hard clout. That would of been his medicine
How come he don't run up on the known criminals, drug man, deadbeat dads, woman beaters, or unruly kids?
Only the innocent hardworking and helpless getting blows
Evil seems to proposer in this nature's little secret
if something isn't done about this.... it will simply continue to be another problem along with all others here in the BVI.
if simple problems cannot be solved then that says allot about the capacity and resilience that the BVI has to resolve problems in general.
BVI Strong ? and still in this 2026 and counting, we have mentally ill / crazy people doing whatever they want and nothing being done about it.