Got TIPS or BREAKING NEWS? Please call 1-284-442-8000 direct/can also WhatsApp same number or Email ALL news to:newsvino@outlook.com;                               ads call 1-284-440-6666

USVI records 1st homicide for 2023

- Following fatal shooting of man on St Thomas on January 15, 2023
The [US] Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) on Sunday, January 15, 2023, announced the first homicide in the US Virgin Islands for 2023, following a shooting incident in Market Square, St Thomas. Photo: VIC
VI CONSORTIUM

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI— The [US] Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) on Sunday, January 15, 2023, announced the first homicide in the US Virgin Islands for 2023, following a shooting incident in Market Square, St Thomas.

According to VIPD Director of Communications Glen Dratte, on Sunday at about 12:45 am, the 911 Emergency Call Center received a report from a concerned resident that a man had been shot in the area of Market Square.

Responding police units made contact with an unresponsive male, who appeared to have suffered multiple gunshot wounds, the VIPD said. Emergency Medical Technicians were also on the scene and attempted to render life-saving measures.

The male victim was transported to Schneider Regional Medical Center via ambulance where he succumbed to his injuries, police said.

The male was identified as Marcos Antonio Benjamin Guerrero, a native of the Dominican Republic. 

6 Responses to “USVI records 1st homicide for 2023”

  • me again (15/01/2023, 15:47) Like (0) Dislike (9) Reply
    Oh boy they beat out the bvi!!!
  • in other news (15/01/2023, 17:49) Like (2) Dislike (3) Reply
    Meanwhile the chooky thing killing 5 a day. Blowss
  • HMMM (15/01/2023, 19:27) Like (1) Dislike (5) Reply
    According to the seemingly racist COP only the BVI has these kinds of crime and no-where else in the world.
    • Is that so? (16/01/2023, 09:55) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
      He needs to look at where he came from. Crime and more crime there.
  • Mnaiosa (02/03/2023, 00:35) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    The allegedly racist Officer claims that these types of crimes exist nowhere else in the world save the BVI for run 3


Create a comment


Submit comment

Create a comment

Submit comment
Disclaimer: Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) welcomes your thoughts, feedback, views, bloggs and opinions. However, by posting a blogg you are agreeing to post comments or bloggs that are relevant to the topic, and that are not defamatory, liable, obscene, racist, abusive, sexist, anti-Semitic, threatening, hateful or an invasion of privacy. Violators may be excluded permanently from making contributions. Please view our declaimer above this article. We thank you in advance for complying with VINO's policy.

Follow Us On

Disclaimer: All comments posted on Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) are the sole views and opinions of the commentators and or bloggers and do not in anyway represent the views and opinions of the Board of Directors, Management and Staff of Virgin Islands News Online and its parent company.