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Youth gunned down in Purcell Estate

Quintinn McGlore aka 'MB' is the young man gunned down in Purcell Estate on January 15, 2025. Photo: Facebook
A 20-year-old male was shot to death in Purcell Estate around 1:40 AM on Wednesday, January 15, 2025. Photo: Internet Source/File
A 20-year-old male was shot to death in Purcell Estate around 1:40 AM on Wednesday, January 15, 2025. Photo: Internet Source/File
PURCELL ESTATE, Tortola, VI- A 20-year-old male was shot to death in Purcell Estate around 1:40 AM on Wednesday, January 15, 2025.

The fatal shooting is the first homicide for 2025 in the Virgin Islands.

Persons in the area reported hearing gunshots, and the body of 20-year-old Quintinn McGlore aka 'MB' was subsequently discovered on a road next to a motorcycle.

Police and ambulance were called to the scene.

The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) confirmed the incident in a brief statement this morning.

According to police, around 2:00 AM officers responded to reports of a shooting incident in the Purcell Estate area. A male victim was found unresponsive at the scene and was later pronounced dead by medical personnel.

Police said investigations into the incident are ongoing.

More details to follow.

53 Responses to “Youth gunned down in Purcell Estate”

  • HMMM (15/01/2025, 07:24) Like (88) Dislike (6) Reply
    They police needs to stop all these lil punks on these niosy motor bike and see how much guns they will find.
    • how? (15/01/2025, 09:29) Like (31) Dislike (2) Reply
      "These lil punks" just drive away or ditch and run.
      Or worse, the cops know if they corner the same one he'll pull out his gun and start blasting away.
      So, the unarmed police in a cruiser just drives on.
    • question (15/01/2025, 09:50) Like (9) Dislike (6) Reply
      Did the deceased have any history with guns?
      • @Question (15/01/2025, 11:43) Like (17) Dislike (13) Reply
        He was out on bail for some gun related charges. These police are a waste of time. The entire force needs to be sent home.
        • purcell (15/01/2025, 18:23) Like (8) Dislike (1) Reply
          The child was not on bail for no gun charge stop spreading false news on the woman child he was charged for drugs
    • @hmmm (15/01/2025, 10:32) Like (83) Dislike (3) Reply
      But when the police stop them y’all start hollering that the police is harassing your boy children, Let the young people have fun. That is what comes out of your mouths.
      • Hmmmm (15/01/2025, 13:58) Like (5) Dislike (2) Reply
        Not me, when a politician family get injury by mistake them you will see action..... but let a regular peroson die from bullet th3 sit back and say mehson wa going on..... and life goes on...
    • Arrion (19/01/2025, 11:30) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      Can someone please explain to me why our Police do not carry guns? The criminals have all of the guns, WHY? I need someone who actually knows the answer, please.
  • Dealer (15/01/2025, 07:47) Like (93) Dislike (5) Reply
    Out at 2am doing what? Check his phone records and you’ll have a story to tell
  • Awful (15/01/2025, 08:05) Like (75) Dislike (5) Reply
    Obviously a very sad turn of events for this young man and his family. The deceased was reportedly out on bail and awaiting trial for a gun-related matter. Play with feathers, get yer bum tickled. These youths need to be getting into education and employment not gangs.
  • asura (15/01/2025, 08:21) Like (41) Dislike (1) Reply
    oh no this is sad put down the guns
  • rip (15/01/2025, 08:29) Like (28) Dislike (5) Reply
    May his young soul RIP. What was he doing out so late.? It's not weekend so therefore all businesses and night life activities closed at 12mn, I need more answers.
  • Reaper roaming (15/01/2025, 08:40) Like (10) Dislike (5) Reply
    Rest up youth. The bvi streetz on fyah
  • Madness (15/01/2025, 08:47) Like (55) Dislike (0) Reply
    Sad but I hope it’s wake up call for the YOUNG GENERATION….not everyone gonna be playing with Ayo! Some of them hot headed and ignorant! Poor parenting!
  • This is Sad (15/01/2025, 09:45) Like (13) Dislike (0) Reply
    Condolences. With all those bright stars in the sky from dust to dawn how is it they not picking up all these activities in the country. Maybe the power that be need to also look out to see who committing all these crimes in our little country. Young men you all will be the leaders of this country one day but that can only happen if you all will engage in legal work. Handsome young man life gone too soon. Guys I pray that you all will change your outlook for 2025. You all do not have to die this way. Stop hurting your moms. Show Love for your mom and this country you call home.
  • more to come (15/01/2025, 09:47) Like (31) Dislike (3) Reply
    This young man should have been remanded to prison for his gang involvement and gun charges. If the magistrate had done their job he would be alive today. Wake up there will be more to come for our beautiful Island.
  • Rubber Duck (15/01/2025, 09:50) Like (5) Dislike (41) Reply
    Free the drew free West Bank
    • @rubber duck (15/01/2025, 19:57) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
      WB is better off where he is. WB name is in the green light book in Capital letters.
  • The new trend (15/01/2025, 09:57) Like (7) Dislike (1) Reply
    They are now catching them on the scooters. Just watch yourselves driving next to the scooter riders
  • .... (15/01/2025, 10:04) Like (37) Dislike (1) Reply
    Dude look like he could still be in school...this generation really cooked
  • Purcel (15/01/2025, 10:07) Like (11) Dislike (7) Reply
    The police need search every house in Purcell cause there always something going down In that area .stop sitting down the the police station that’s not what you all getting paid for
    • @Purcel (15/01/2025, 13:46) Like (12) Dislike (1) Reply
      you forget yall was crying about a police bill that allows officers to search houses without a warrant? guess what officers cant search no house unless them have warrant and solid information to search people house.

      but yea fight for your rights i guess .... while helping the criminals get away
    • @Purcel (15/01/2025, 20:58) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
      Not without a damn warrant. I’m not giving up my rights that easy.
  • Bam Boo Shay (15/01/2025, 10:13) Like (12) Dislike (5) Reply
    The saga of the Black on Black crime,a favourite sport of the Caribbean Revelers along with carry befo u marry.
  • jack and browne (15/01/2025, 10:28) Like (26) Dislike (0) Reply
    Ah yes dont worry about this guys just keep fighinting the police bill and cyber crime bill that empowers police to fight crime and win cases with harder facts.

    keep fighting about it while the youths gun down each other and live a criminal lifestyle.

    everything good over here we dont need no police bill or cyber crime bill
  • Naldo (15/01/2025, 10:37) Like (7) Dislike (33) Reply
    Wow i know I heard some noise this morning and smelled something being grilled but didnt know someone had actually gotten smoked.
  • Local Brother (15/01/2025, 11:17) Like (22) Dislike (2) Reply
    His nickname is not MB. That is his and his boys in the gang marker. Money Boys. The dummies just following what they see on tv or online. No creativity no nothing
  • Sad (15/01/2025, 12:17) Like (14) Dislike (1) Reply
    This is heart breaking. Condolences to the family of the deceased. It’s time to take a serious look at our youth policy and try to find ways to replace criminal behavior with productivity.

    Our government needs to invest in the same technology that is used in the USVI so that they can respond quickly when shots are fired in all gun related incidents. The response time to this incident was good and I hope that they will continue on this trend.
  • Chris (15/01/2025, 12:35) Like (10) Dislike (0) Reply
    Another mother has to now bury her young son. Ma'am, my heart and prayers are with you at this time.
  • Real Talk (15/01/2025, 12:41) Like (10) Dislike (3) Reply
    WELL ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME IN HIS PARENTS HOUSE SLEEPING IAM WAY OLDER THAN HIM AND I DONT WANT 10 PM CATCH ME OUT SIDE LOCK THE PARENTS UP THEY JUST AS BAD CHURCH OUT.
  • parents (15/01/2025, 12:49) Like (7) Dislike (1) Reply
    Bad parenting, this generation of parents under 40years old failed our country. TV and social media are raising the kids while mothers are out there on the streets and to every pan knock trying to bag a so call money man tying to get a man to take care of them financially and don’t forget the fathers who father a children and abandoned them and left the single mothers out here struggling to take care of 2 or 3 bad children. Parents please do better at raising these kids.
  • hmm (15/01/2025, 12:56) Like (16) Dislike (1) Reply
    All these scooter lil man round the place wearing big gold chain with the man purses and don't work nowhere. If yall serious about cleaning up the place I would say start there.
  • A Capitalist Who Loves the BVI (15/01/2025, 13:14) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    As one poster noted, the police being unarmed cause them to just drive past those who are clearly up to no good. And yet, when someone proposes arming the police, those same people who criticize them as being ineffective will howl without outrage about the dangers of armed police. Unarmed police are predicated upon a "policing by consent" model that is a long-outdated anachronism that has no relationship to the reality of modern-day thuggery.
  • One gone (15/01/2025, 13:17) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    Every cloud has a Siver lining.
  • El Demonio Negro (15/01/2025, 13:50) Like (6) Dislike (9) Reply
    These YNs going start killing each other all over again. Means more biches for me!
  • Iva Biggin (15/01/2025, 14:02) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
    Such a sad and tragic waste of a young life all for what? To be some kind of wannbe gangsta and being involved in the criminal world. This ain't no TV show and these bullets are real. Sadly, this will not be the last of these types of homicide. Condolences to his family.
  • hmm (15/01/2025, 14:11) Like (13) Dislike (0) Reply
    Parents if you see your children doing thing out of the way please correct them , you don't want this outcome for your child(ren). Kudos to the family in VG for calling police on their son, we need more like them and BVI will be safer again.
  • ... (15/01/2025, 14:34) Like (9) Dislike (0) Reply
    How is this not first page news? So cruel we ready to move on as if nothing happened once again. Who is his parents and see if they had the shooter from pleasant valley on camera they could have a lead to follow. Gun shots one night a murder next night. Doesnt take inspector gadget to link the two. First night might have been a test. But because they were not apprehended they got a chance to murder. Wow.

    Then they want to know why we dont respect the police asking for help. People get killed under their security in populated areas time & time again.
  • WHY ALL THE FUSS (15/01/2025, 14:45) Like (8) Dislike (5) Reply
    WHEN THESE WANNABE GANSTERS KILL OFF EACHOTHER , WE SHOULD WELCOME THAT , AND HOPEFULLY THEY DO IT MORE FAST , SO THAT THE COUNTRY CAN COME BACK TO NORMAL , HE PROBABLY DONE KILL ALREADY , UNDERESTIMATING THE YOUTHS THESE DAYS COULD BE YOUR LAST MISTAKE , WE ALL KJOW THEY HAVE HIGH POWERED GUNS , AND WE ALSO KNOW THEY AINT AFRAID THEM TO FLEX OFF THEMSELVES , BECAUSE THEY ARE ACCUSTOMED OF GETTING AWAY WITH COLDBLOODED EXECUTION STYLE MURDERS , WIT A PAT ON THEIR SHOULDER , AND TOLD " DON'T DO IT AGAIN " OR GIVEN A " LIL " VACATION UP BALO , WHERE THEY CAN SHOW OFF THEMSELVES ON FACEBOOK WITH THEIR GOLD CHAINS & AND RINGS , AND WHEN THEY COME BACK OUT , THEY GET THEIR BRAGGING ON THE STREETS , THAT HAS BECOME THE NORM , / ( EVEN OUR MASTER NAT-AL-EO HAS ACKNOWLEDGED , THEY ARE WALKING IN THE STREETS AMONGST US ) //\_ THE WANNABE JUSTICE SYSTEM IS SERVING THE CRIMINALS OR WORKING WITH THEM , / THE YOUTHS ARE VERY INTELLIGENT SADLY ALL THEIR KNOWLEDGE IS WASTED NEGATIVELY DRUGS HAVE TAKEN OVER THEIR MIND, BODY & SOUL , AND IF THERE ISN'T A CLEANSING OF THESE CRACKHEADS , THEIR PARENTS CAN BECOME THEIR NEXT VICTIMS , THAT THEY WILL BE FLEXING OFF ON , WATCH AND SEE
  • VI Streets (15/01/2025, 17:45) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
    Wow!! a young man lost his life and the comments OMG.That's why the place is running so red and only going get hotter with the mindset of the people living in this territory. Rest in peace, you worked good to me at the gas station. Condolences to your family and love ones
  • youths (15/01/2025, 18:25) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    Choose life carefully that life is 2 way out jail or death
  • hmm (15/01/2025, 18:58) Like (4) Dislike (1) Reply
    A youth dead and all yall gah talk bout negative smh !
  • That time of morning (15/01/2025, 19:08) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    What is he doing out here rather than home in his bed. I am 42 years old and I don’t let darkness catch me outside. That area is a hot spot. I feel sorry for the law abiding people that have to live in that area.
  • guy hill (15/01/2025, 21:49) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    These young people need to calculate the future cost of the ADC's of their lives. Actions. Decisions and Choices.
  • Spin Again (16/01/2025, 10:05) Like (11) Dislike (3) Reply
    F*** MBG!! Anything repping 6 getting stepped on. Hang with dem boys die with dem boys. Deh don say so.
  • Madea (16/01/2025, 13:48) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    Another murder that be will be unsolved . Over the years lots of murders and only 1 conviction and he werent local.
  • hmm (16/01/2025, 14:41) Like (6) Dislike (2) Reply
    His fingers was sticky…so one day you must pay for it!
  • smh (16/01/2025, 16:12) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
    Parents need to start being locked up with their damned seed mehson, apple dont make orange ina..I bet the parents start making sure their children are law abiding citizens in this place and not just out and about doing nonsense
  • hmm (16/01/2025, 17:17) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    The police ain't looking for the bigger fishes they busy arresting big grown man for a dime bag instead of getting those baking powder and guns off the street away from the youths.
  • Parents family friends (17/01/2025, 11:06) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Save the territory, save your life, save your child life, save your friends lives, save the enemy's lives. If you know your child, children or family involved in this ganster life do what you know is best to try to save their lives. Stop turning a blind eye to late shall be your cry. Get rid of the guns.

    Stiffer penalties if you get caught with an unlawful weapon. More stop and search,

    Territory is getting more and more out of control we must take stock as a people .
  • save the seed (18/01/2025, 22:44) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Sad
  • BVI IZ ONE (19/01/2025, 10:47) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    dis iz common sense, the young boy waz in ah gang it iz no way tht the police cnt yet put 1n1 togeda, find out who the gang iz waring wit nd who r the res memberz of MB gang, iz sad 2 c him gone but he waz apart of a gang n mulitple robberiez

    letz come togeda as one n find theze MB members bvi thiz iz our kidz future


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