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UPDATE: Police confirm Jason Leonard Vanterpool's death an act of homicide

- first homicide in VI for 2015
The death of Jason Leonard Vanterpool, whose body was discovered at Butu Mountain on October 12, 2015, is being treated as an act of homicide, according to the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF). Photo: Team of Reporters
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The death of Jason Leonard Vanterpool, whose body was discovered at Butu Mountain on October 12, 2015, is being treated as an act of homicide, according to the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF).

Virgin Islands News Online was first to break the news yesterday that the body of Vanterpool was discovered with multiple bullet wounds and that it was also in a state of early decomposition.

“Detectives of the Major Crime Team are conducting an investigation into the Territory’s first homicide for 2015. The body of Jason Leonard Vanterpool, 28, a native of Tortola residing in Butu Mountain, was discovered yesterday afternoon at his Butu Mountain residence with a number of gunshot wounds,” the RVIPF disclosed in a press release today, October 13, 2015.

It said the official cause of death is still to be determined and a  postmortem on the body is to be performed.

The Coroner’s Office has been informed and family members of the deceased have been kept updated as the investigation proceeds. 

Anyone with information that can assist in this investigation is asked to contact detectives within the Major Crime Team directly at 368-5682. Persons can give that information anonymously to Crimestoppers through its Miami-based hotline number 800-TIPS (8477).

See previous article published October 12, 2015

Man found dead @ Butu Mountain identified as Jason Leonard

- body reportedly bore multiple bullet wounds

More information reaching our newsroom is that the man found dead at Butu Mountain earlier this evening, October 12, 2015 has been identified as Jason Leonard.

Information is still sketchy but Virgin Islands News Online was told that the body bore multiple bullet wounds.

We will keep you updated as more information comes in.

See previous article posted October 12, 2015

Bullet riddled body discovered @ Butu Mountain

Information just reaching our newsroom is that a body of a man reportedly bearing what appears to be bullet wounds was discovered at a home in Butu Mountain on the main island of Tortola this evening, October 12, 2015.

According to reports, the body had already started to decompose.

Sources have only give the man's name as 'Jason'.

It is not clear who made the discovery, but according to reliable sources, the man appeared to have been shot at least four times. 

"Lately he used to hang out on the block at Belle Vue," a source told Virgin Islands News Online.

A response from the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force to our queries was not received up to post time.

54 Responses to “UPDATE: Police confirm Jason Leonard Vanterpool's death an act of homicide”

  • school children say (12/10/2015, 21:40) Like (6) Dislike (2) Reply
    They call him "13"
  • ccc (12/10/2015, 21:45) Like (130) Dislike (1) Reply
    Oh boy i cry for my bvi
  • True (12/10/2015, 21:46) Like (17) Dislike (1) Reply
    unlucky I guess then, but people executed like this usually are involves with guns
  • :/ (12/10/2015, 22:05) Like (13) Dislike (6) Reply
    Barely out of jail & now dead
  • oh lord oh (12/10/2015, 22:13) Like (12) Dislike (147) Reply
    Another one bites the dust of the NDP.
    • NHI (13/10/2015, 08:04) Like (22) Dislike (2) Reply
      The only person like your post is you. You must be feeling real bad about that stupid comment.
  • #Count (12/10/2015, 22:33) Like (36) Dislike (3) Reply
    One more unsolved to be added to the list. Wow.
  • chad (12/10/2015, 22:41) Like (16) Dislike (4) Reply
    ANOTHER UNSOLVED MYSTERY
  • Grrrr (12/10/2015, 23:48) Like (38) Dislike (9) Reply
    Gun crimes and crimes in general on the rise, eff what you heard.
  • ccccccvv (13/10/2015, 00:02) Like (18) Dislike (100) Reply
    Under ndp crime goes up
  • Whattt??? (13/10/2015, 04:43) Like (5) Dislike (4) Reply
    My godson Jason!
  • wize up (13/10/2015, 05:13) Like (37) Dislike (17) Reply
    why are we not hearing from any of the 13-persons that we voted into leader of our country on 8 June 2015 as it relates to this current rise in gun crimes; don't any of these 13-elected officials care about us or do they only have us at heart just before an election...this has absolutely no !ucking thing to do with NDP or VIP, if such issues are left unchecked what will happen to our territory.....we meeting with our premier about NHI but i personally feel there should be a meeting about growing rise in gun crimes(for some of us that grew up in the 60's the gun-ting scary but we not afraid; if you live by the sward U will die by the sward)
    • i was hacked (13/10/2015, 10:12) Like (18) Dislike (0) Reply
      u grew up in the 60's! wow i wasn't even born yet. But what do u expect them to say? That they will personally go door to door, car to car and confiscate all illegal gun? A gun amnesty that lasting a whole year and is a total joke.. Especially when persons caught with guns have high ranking family members pull strings to get off.
      • wize up (13/10/2015, 13:28) Like (5) Dislike (3) Reply
        @ I was hacked: always remember that they will also be crime in hood(the roots and the radicals): it is sad to see the level of black on black crime in chocolate city while others out enjoying day-sailing, bike riding, jogging and snorkeling in our backyard
        • i was hacked (13/10/2015, 14:19) Like (16) Dislike (0) Reply
          the Gov officials CAN'T do anything about what's going on, people have made their choices. Some will abide by the law and others choose to go against it. I work a 9-5, i dont LOVE it but it's my bread and butter. I didn't choose to go deal with drugs or other illegal activities and point the finger saying "nobody hiring". It might not pay the best but i can go where i want and i dont have to watch my back.
  • tough times (13/10/2015, 05:17) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    What goes around
  • Your 4 seconds up (13/10/2015, 07:49) Like (1) Dislike (3) Reply
    Seem like some sort of comeuppance move it along, nothing to see here.
  • Precious (13/10/2015, 07:54) Like (3) Dislike (2) Reply
    OMG, I talked to him just mid last week he dropped me off at work. Sad.
  • taxing the poor (13/10/2015, 08:29) Like (4) Dislike (3) Reply
    they just as bad,busy killing the poor with tax in other ways.
  • Voter Too (13/10/2015, 09:23) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    Another family goes into mourning, another mother crying. When will we learn as this seems to b theorder of the day not only all over the Caribbean but all over the world.My sympathy to the family
  • Your Antie CPG (13/10/2015, 10:53) Like (11) Dislike (3) Reply
    May God shower his mercy on you. Only he knows the suffering you must have gone through. What goes around surly comes around. They may go free down here but judgement day WILL come. GPL hold strong leave it to God.
  • Vino Reader (13/10/2015, 11:02) Like (24) Dislike (11) Reply
    Did D------S funeral Home steal that body?
    • SIDS (13/10/2015, 14:21) Like (6) Dislike (1) Reply
      That's the joke for the day. thank you.
    • lmao (13/10/2015, 17:54) Like (7) Dislike (1) Reply
      Yes so the body can be well enbarmed and he could look like he is resting in the coffin no like he was butchered or battered and water running from him and we can see all his stitches . so davis of I pass u steal my body tooo
      • Peaches (15/10/2015, 07:32) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
        @lmao We are so concerned about how the body looks in the coffin but if that body didn't did in The Lord Jesus it is coming back up in the resurrection with them same stitches, bullets, cancer, whatever! If we are not covered under the blood of Jesus we will be lost in hell. We focus on fancy booklets, fancy coffins but the "Soul"! The "Soul"! If we die without Christ we are lost!
        • @PEACHES (15/10/2015, 15:23) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
          Coming back with the same stitches, bullets, cancer etc????

          What part of the Bible did you find that in?

          Scriptures PLEASE!
      • lmfao (16/10/2015, 00:32) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        Lol...... Exactly
    • Yes (15/10/2015, 21:42) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      lol
    • Ceres (20/10/2015, 10:16) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      lol lol lol ll lol lol
  • cop (13/10/2015, 11:06) Like (5) Dislike (7) Reply
    crime is up under this gang
    • crime up? (13/10/2015, 14:35) Like (15) Dislike (14) Reply
      there is none so blind as will not see. How can it be that the FIRST homicide in the year, occurring in OCTOBER, is a signal that crime is up? Exactly one murder this year and you clucking like a chicken.
  • construction man (13/10/2015, 12:56) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    This is sad I met this guy. last week he was working on oil nut bay.
  • ........ (13/10/2015, 14:45) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
    Partner look like he was a lil shotta man.....
  • 123 (13/10/2015, 14:47) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    oh boy sad sad sad
  • bring back the death penalty (13/10/2015, 15:40) Like (3) Dislike (2) Reply
    Let us start hanging again.
  • speak out (13/10/2015, 16:14) Like (28) Dislike (0) Reply
    I bet the shooter(s) are known thugs who have been up to no good many times. Probably been involved with crimes that their family, friends and neighbors kept quit on because of the unwritten code to never speak the truth about evil. Chances are they should have been behind bars before this ever happened. Yet all you transfer the blame from yourselves onto the government officials! It becomes the NDP fault because you too scared to turn your brother in for being an evil mess. Well one day that person lying dead of gunshot wounds will be someone you hold dear and you will be to blame because you never provided the lead and the evidence for the police to investigate and the courts to prosecute. You are the problem. Not the NDP or the Governor. No one but yourself. You let the community down and your own family and loved ones when you are tight lipped and give crime the air to grow. You can save a life if only you recognize your code is the cause of every next crime.
  • Voter Too (13/10/2015, 17:51) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
    Wow look at lucky number 13.Here we talk about the 13 elected representatives,this guy was known as 13 and today is the 13. I gonna play the lotto to see if I win something sa.
  • please (13/10/2015, 18:56) Like (15) Dislike (2) Reply
    One Murder and you all freaking out.. in October?? One Murder...? We have our issues but the Virgin Islands (BVI) is still one of the safest places in the Caribbean. ..No country is incident free.
    • @ please (13/10/2015, 19:59) Like (2) Dislike (9) Reply
      please what dam safe this place call BVI is a death and killing zone!
    • expat usa (13/10/2015, 22:54) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
      I'm in Jerusalem and spent a great day in the Jewish Quarter. What's going on here in the bvi doesn't even begin to compare to the wanton gun violence (often resulting in mass slaughter) we experience weekly in America.
      • Outsider (14/10/2015, 14:01) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
        The U.S.A. has over 300,000,000 people.
        The V.I. has over 30,000 people.
        It is hardly surprising that the level of gun violence doesn't compare. That doesn't mean much.
        • Wendy (17/10/2015, 19:52) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
          J E R U S A L E M...Plenty I could say about Jerusalem killing and being killed but not enough space.
          But to "outsider, please look up Jerusalem and you will see that is not in the USA.
  • Joy (13/10/2015, 20:52) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    god bless the BVI
  • we cry out (13/10/2015, 22:59) Like (0) Dislike (10) Reply
    This violence is the only way youths in the BVI after 4 years of this NDP gang have to protest. The youths now are people living in quasi-slavery, in what is, for them, a police state and where the rich get rich and the poor die and the young peopkle have no role in. These are not "murderers and inciters" any more than any group forced to live in these conditions are.
    • wize up (14/10/2015, 07:51) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      @ we cry out: do you seriously think that crime and violence is the best path to take: do you realize the average person in the territory go out and work and it is just the "few" that have taken up guns and doing !uck....typical low life nigger put the blame on every other person rather than be accountable for their actions: a significant number of persons in our territory are on permits but they go out and work day-after-day, while a few of OUR youth have taken to criminal activities and do NOT wish to work!!!!!...you will find lots more of them in their house dead, in the ghuts dead, in the bushes dead and along the same street them playing bad-boy dead.....always remember Tortola is very small and you are easy to find; police "investigates" but some persons will simply retaliate.....

  • Outsider (14/10/2015, 11:11) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    I knew the victim. Not very well but well enough to say hello to and the like. I only came to know him over recent months. He was a pleasant and friendly person to meet and very often wore a smile. I believe I met the victim's young daughter too. He was bringing the young girl to school the day I met them together. My sincere condolences go out to the victim's family.

    May his soul be at the right hand of God.
  • Jah knows (14/10/2015, 19:34) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    This world is a great place but human mess it up can't believe human can watch another and shoot him down must be the devil in tola rip king peace
  • anyone else? (14/10/2015, 20:28) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply

    I'm I the only one find this fishy I find this death very sudden after the A**** kid got shot at I'm just sayimg he should be a person of interest



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