14 Is St Croix safe? Indeed, although it has sometimes seemed from press reports that only whites get killed on St. Croix, statistics made available by Gov. Territory 32 They worked for weeks to get the old hotel in shape for the first guests, who arrived Nov. 3. Emergency medical technicians on the scene said man did not have any vital signs. Her dress was soaked with seawater. STX 8 Increasing food security while trimming the waste stream in the Virgin Islands were the dual goals of a composting workshop held on St. John. STX 20 Today's Virgin Islands news today. Seven others had been arrested for the Brauhaus murders and they were scheduled to go on trial later that month. And then there were three more murders on a single day, Oct. 10a Frenchman from St. Barts shot in the hack, two women schoolteachers gunned down after an apparent rape attempt. St. Croix Historical Society . Murder in Paradise: The Case of St. Croix, https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/10/archives/murder-in-paradise-the-case-of-st-croix-making-the-move.html. One of the victims is a family member of mine as well. At around 8:29 a.m. Friday the 911 emergency call center received a report of shots fired in the Garden Street area. Police said they believed Illidge had been a bystander who had been caught in the crossfire. At the scene, officers found an unresponsive black male later identified as 28-year-old Elon Frett of St. Thomas. St. Barts, short for Saint Barthlemy, has been an overseas collectivity of France since 2007. STX 15 No form of identification was found on the body. Anything for money BUT WORK FOR THEM DARKIES. 3. He was a former Fort Drum soldier who served from July 1999 to February 2005 as an infantryman, serving in both Kosovo and Iraq. During the same period in 2019, there were 43 homicides and a total of 18 arrests, with 22 murders on St. Croix, 21 . At 7:48 a.m. Thursday, July 23, the 911 emergency call center received a report of shots being fired in the Louis Brown Villas housing community. Antigua. Some islanders suggest that the underworld might have fomented the recent violence here to create a climate in which gambling would he welcome. Date of death Feb. 16 Puerto Ricansparticularly from the island of Vieques, who have settled here in large numbers during the past decade. Officers traveled to the area and found an adult Black male on the ground with gunshot wounds. Emergency medical technicians on the scene concluded the man, later identified as Bomani K. Christian, had no signs of life. On January 3 three armed men came into the restaurant and terrorized the guests. Saint Croix Island International Historic Site, located along the U.S.A.- Canada border in Maine, commemorates the founding of one of the earliest sites of European settlement in North America. That is nonsense.. Juan F. Luis Hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries. She was unconscious and near death, but there were no outward signs of struggle or foul play. Officers traveled to the scene and discovered an adult Black male who sustained multiple gunshot wounds about his body. At about 11:48 a.m. July 4, the 911 Emergency Call Center received reports of shots being fired in the Smithfield/Two Brothers area, just east of Walter I. M. Hodge Pavilion. Territory 5, 6 Dont move here. Officers found an unresponsive young black male with multiple gunshot wounds about the body. Re: Crime. This can lead to a variance in the number of incidents reported. Pushing snow or other materials onto or across highways from private driveways can create safety concerns and impede the snow and ice removal process. Juan F. Luis Memorial Hospital for treatment, and later succumbed to his injuries. Last year, the hotel grossed only $62,000 about half of the projection made by J. At about 12:57 p.m. Thursday, July 9, the 911 emergency call center was notified of shots fired in the shuttered Tutu High Rise housing community, in the vicinity of Building 13. The St. Croix County Sheriff's Office continues to investigate the attached cold cases. STX 11 Sterling Livingston about leasing his small hotel on St. Croixone of the three American Virgin Islands. Tips can also be submitted at www.crimestoppersvi.org, . By the time I left the island on Jan. 14 of this year. The investigation revealed Christian was assaulted by two, unidentified, Black males who left the area in a dark maroon SUV. STT 12 Upon arrival, officers observed an unresponsive man identified as Clarke with gunshot wounds to the body. Whatever you do for a vacation, do have a happy time. At around 11:16 p.m. Wednesday, July 22, the 911 emergency call center received a report of shots fired in Smith Bay, in the vicinity of the Pavilions and Pools Hotel. But that will take time. The modern Carambola Beach Resort And Spa (Photo: Google Street View screenshot) A half-century ago, five gunmen strode into the Fountain Valley Golf Course, killing eight people and wounding eight more. Water Island is also quiet. STX 22 Derima said the body was discovered in a vehicle on the road leading to Green Cay beach and that Jarvis had suffered multiple gunshot wounds. I thought he was smart enough, intelligent enough, aware enough to know that, you know, it wasnt real.. And the cause of both deaths was cyanide poisoning. According to the St. Croix County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to a critical incident in Somerset on Saturday, July 30, and five people suffered stab wounds, ranging from serious to critical. Carmen Torres was discovered, near death, less than a half a mile from the spot where Radha Maharaj was found. Isnt it more common for women to poison? We took it.. [4][2] The other three served 29 years in federal prisons before being returned to Virgin Islands custody, and then retransferred to private prisons in the United States. Territory 25 Harrison paid short visit to the island last year. 16 Which is the quietest Caribbean island? Albert Bryan said at a Frederiksted press conference Tuesday. Emergency Medical Technicians arrived on the scene and pronounced the victim dead. In December, normally the start of the heavy tourist influx, the hotel had 24 cancellations and 13 guests (one of them a photographer who came to use the hotel's idyllicloolang beach as a background for an ad for Avon cosmetics). But Within 19 days (in, late July and early August), five more whites were killed: a real estate saleswoman strangled to death with a telephone cord; a businessman murdered during a robbery; an artisf felled with a ihntgutt blast; a 74yearold woman and her 52yearold daughter bludgeoned to, death. The victim was identified as 22-year-old Jahkerby Charles. Edsel Striden was found dead in his truck on a nearby beach. In the three years since they have been greatly exacerbated. The witness told the 911 Dispatcher that she had been on the phone with the victim when she heard gunshot sounds through the phone. Was the man who promised buried treasure to Haig Caesar the same one who telephoned the Maharajes? Thomas, St. Croix and St. Johnand a new public relations firm to operate both internally and externally. Some of the materials on violence are dated. Croix have increased in crime in recent years. STT: 6 But they're about five years behind their black brothers in the States. 1 person dead, 1 person hurt after rollover crash in St. Croix County Eau Claire man seriously hurt in Barron County snowmobile crash Man appears in court in Jan. 14 Chippewa Falls shooting Today in 1757, it is generally believed Alexander Hamilton was born. And nativeborn Crucians probably number no more than 20 per cent. Date of death: April 8 Police Department reported Wednesday. The preponderance of whites is due largely to the nine whites killed at Fountain Valley and the Brauhausgroup murders which in several respects were different from the others. As a 14-year-old, Hamilton expressed interest in joining a military force to achieve prestige through warfare. While this listing is based on VIPD reports, the Source does not include suicides or vehicular homicides in its listing which the police and some other media do. This, in turn, sets off a wide range of countervailing resentments and suspicions. Murder on the St. Croix is another Glenn Ickler hit. For this reason, the press may have done the island an unintentional injustice by failing to convey the sense of what is like to vacation here. You are now leaving Unsolved.com and heading to our shop at. ST. CROIX, V. I., Dec. 9 Three months have passed since eight persons were gunned down on the breezeswept ter race that overlooks the Foun tain Valley Golf Club, a St. Croix attraction that . In sum, Crucians feel their beautiful island has been taken away from them. Around 2 a.m. Wednesday, police arrested Kyan Crooke, age 32, of Estate Frydenhoj, charging him with voluntary manslaughter in the incident. Your chance of being a victim of crime in St. Croix may be as high as 1 in 46 in the southwest neighborhoods, or as low as 1 in 53 in the central part of the city. Add data for St Croix, Consider looking into aggregate data we have for Crime in Us Virgin Islands. Jamal Jacobs, 39, was shot to death in the Garden Street area of St. Thomas. (Photo by Judi Shimel).#VISource #thesource #usvi #LocalNews #linkinbio To watch the VIPD press briefing you canclick here. Date of death July 23 Of those 49 deaths, 27 were on St. Croix, 20 on St. Thomas, and two on St. John. It may contain wrinkles, cracks, and possibly even tears due to its age and how it was handled before it got to us. Date of death June 23 Territory 16 The victim was transported via ambulance to the Juan F. Luis Hospital & Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries. Like the Maharajes, they had also taken out a loan to expand their business: $54,000 in cash. Joseph and Ballentine testified that they had only planned on committing a robbery,[2] but that things got out of hand because LaBeet was adamant that they also make "a political statement"; LaBeet told them "he was angry about foreigners coming in to take our money and leaving us with nothing." We were warned that St. Croix had a high crime rate but were totally unprepared for being robbed at gunpoint in a restaurant with 40 other people. Date of death May 8 OK Everybody Take Care of Yourselves Everybody Have A Wonderful Life And God Bless Everyone On The Face of This Earth! See the article in its original context from. The result : Violent crime is rising in the USVI and to think otherwise is purse ignorance of the facts. The victim was identified by next of kin. STX 16 And, of course, the Wilmarths can only guess how many potential guests were frightened away before they even made a booking. No retreat, no surrender. Police urge anyone with information about the murders to call 911, the Crime Tip line at 340-778-4950, or Crime Stoppers USVI at 800-222-8477 or visitp3tips.com. Officers were also notified of four gunshot victims at the Schneider Regional Medical Center. This comes after a shooting incident occurred at the Aureo Diaz housing community that left two men identified as 33-year-old Michael Ramos and 38-year-old Juan Velasquez dead. Police Department, V.I. Well Its Quite Simple Heres What I Think Well a. At 4 a.m. this morning, teams involving the VIPD and several other agencies executed search and arrest warrants for 36-year-old Luis A. Rivera, 28-year-old Jameel Williams and 30-year-old Gilberto Rivera Jr., said St. Croix District Chief of Police Sidney Elskoe. Color? Photo is dated 05-30-1988. Especially when I spoke to my mother about what they were doing, she didnt like for me to ask some of those things. Any where there a lot of negroes or even a melange of hybrid negroeslike st crotch, you get max crime. My wife and I also jus got back from our third trip to St Croix . Virgin Islands (U.S.) crime rate & statistics for 2009 was 46.99 , a 9.04% increase from 2008. According to figures made available by the St. Croix Hotel Association, the occupancy rate in October, 1973, was the lowest in recent island historyan incredible 13.1 per cent compared to 43.6 per cent in the peak tourist year of 1969. According to Elskoe, the agencies that assisted with the arrest of the three men included the V.I. Date of death July 31 Arriving at the scene, the officers discovered a vehicle in the roadway. [3], All five defendants were convicted after a trial in the District Court of the Virgin Islands, a federal territorial court, on multiple charges of murder, assault, and robbery under Virgin Islands law. The two deceased victims were 17-year-old minors, the V.I.P.D. STT 11 Our Premium Cost of Living Calculator includes Utilities, Electric Bills, Costs for Natural Gas, Heating Oil, Propane, Comfort Indexes based on the year-round and seasonal weather and other must-know details.Click here to customize.. Utilities in Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota are 0.4% less expensive than St. STT 8 The training was provided through Emergency Response Diving International, a division of Technical Diving International. Police Department, officers traveled to the area and found an unresponsive male, who appeared to have sustained a gunshot wound to his upper body. One of the daughters questioned their mother about it: She told us that this is what they had to pay to the gentleman. [9], Joseph received a pardon from the Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1994 after 22 years' imprisonment, but died four years later of a drug overdose. Unlike many news organizations, we haven't put up a paywall we want to keep our journalism as accessible as we can. At 10:18 p.m., the 911 emergency call center received multiple reports from concerned citizens of shots fired near the corner of King and Market Streets in downtown Frederiksted. Pictures of these followers, with their fists raised, were distributed by a wire service, giving the impression that racial antagonism was more widespread than. Date of death Nov. 30 Date of death May 26 Another eight were either shot at or wounded. Officers traveled to the area and discovered an unresponsive Black male and a wounded Caucasian male, both suffering from gunshot wounds. Autopsies of the bodies revealed that they had both died from cyanide poisoning. So they'll clean up the street crime for us.. The St. Croix County Sheriff's Office said 55-year-old Timothy Boardman of Spring Valley died after a crash that was reported to county officials at 10:38 p.m. Sunday on Highway 29 near the . Most of the murders, indeed, seem to be the result of burglaries discovered in the act and most burglaries are aimed at permanent residentsblack and white. Ken below is not correct. What with the $25,000 lease money, the operational expenses and about $10,000 of their own money they had sunk into repairs, the Wilmarths had a net loss during the first year. Date of death July 9 The Fountain Valley massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on the afternoon of 6 September 1972 at the Fountain Valley Golf Course in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands. Territory 38 According to the report from the VIPD, at about 7:22 p.m. Friday police were notified about a shooting in Contant. Sterling Livingston. 9. Both Carmen and Edsels clothes were soaked with seawater and both had died of cyanide poisoning. And for her to go out at night, that is even more strange, because she didnt ever go anywhere at night. According to the VIPD, at about 7:45 p.m. Sunday, the 911 emergency call center was notified of shots fired in Estate Barren Spot. But even paradise can have a dark side. Julien was shot Dec. 4 at Havensight Mall on St. Thomas during a failed robbery. According to V.I.P . At their trial, they attracted a claque which regarded them as heroes. St. Thomas, VI 00802 Phone: 340-774-8772 Email: online@dailynews.vi. Territory 27, 28 While Martinez said police have yet to identify a motive in either of the slayings, but he confirmed police are exploring the fact the victims were acquainted could have been a factor in one or both of their deaths. For several hours, we wandered through the packed enclosure, listening to steel bands, eating stewed goat and roast conch at the fancifully named stalls (my favorite was one called Afrodisiac) and literally rubbing shoulders with tipsy but not unfriendly blacks. The assault on the Rockefellerowned golf course, in which automatic weapons were turned on anyone standing around the clubhouse, seemed more a political statement than a simple crime. St. The victims were identified by next of kin as 29-year-old Rique Ashby and his cousin, 14-year-old Aaron Ashby. Territory 39 Department of Justice, V.I. Continentals says Crucians are lazy, that they refuse to contribute to the island's economy, but prefer to hold down superfluous government jobs. Until that fall, the Wilmarths lived in Syracuse, N.Y., where Bob was a design engineer and Josephine sold real estate. Date of death Jan. 17 Curses, hexes, effigy dolls, and potions are more often a part of Obia, an underground form of sorcery that is not connected to voodoo. But even paradise can have a dark side. Five men were arrested for the golf course killings, tried and convicted in August. On May 24, 1984, a young girl on her way to school found Haig in his car, which had apparently run off the road. Edsel and Carmen had owned a small neighborhood bar. So let me say this: During my 10day stay, walked through both Christiansted and Fredericksted at night and drove dark and deserted roads all over the island. Police have not yet listed a cause of death for 56-year-old Gregorianna Julien, who died on Jan. 2. Anything other than the strong accent?? Territory 40 Virtually every time I mentioned the purpose of my trip, the islander was talking with would groan and launch into a heated tirade against the distortions and malicious lies in mainland reporting of the murders here. He appeared to have sustained multiple gunshot wounds to his body. At this point in 2021, only two homicides had been reported in the territory, one on St. Croix and one on St. John. Any afternoon, one can find blacks, whites and intermediate shadings of brown splashed across the courts in a wide variety of mixed doublesample evidence that an older tradition of congenial racial mingling still survives on St. Croix. Each was sentenced to eight consecutive life terms. We were all well. Search warrants were executed on Friday at a residence in Pepper Tree Terrace in connection to the homicide investigation of Bradley Maxwell that occurred on Dec. 28, 2022. Mikal Dore, 25, was found dead Wednesday morning in Estate Thomas. November 10, 2022. STX 23 When I visited St. Croix in 1971 the strain between these groups were evident. Shappert announced today that on Wednesday, March 3, 2021, Chief Judge Wilma Lewis sentenced Delroy Thomas, 30, of St. Croix, to 120 months in prison, a $3,000 fine, three years of supervised release and a $100 special assessment for the federal charge of murder for hire. 34-year-old Ray Thomas was shot and killed at about 2:38 a.m. in his Estate Sion Hills home. At the time, Police Commissioner designee Ray Martinez stressed that Schjang was an innocent bystander killed by an errant bullet and not connected to gunmen shooting at each other in Peters Rest and Castle Coakley that day. . A St. Croix man faces attempted murder and assault charges after a woman alleges she was assaulted and choked during an argument between the two on Monday, the V.I. Arriving at the scene, officers found a male individual, subsequently identified as Vernon Rawlins, who had sustained multiple gunshot wounds. Officers traveled to the area and found an unresponsive Black male lying in the shopping centers parking lot. The tranquil beach scene at left contrasts with the view of fatigueclad F.B.I. But in the restaurants, bars and private homes I visited during a 10day stay here in January to assess thestate of the island's tourist industry, most people I talked with seemed to blame the current slump on the mainland press. IN UNWANTED SPOTLIGHT", "Gov't of Virgin Islands v. Gereau (502 F.2d 914)", "Gov't of Virgin Islands v. Gereau (523 F.2d 140)", "NEW YORK-BOUND FLIGHT HIJACKED TO CUBA BY CONVICTED MURDERER", "Cuban Diary: Fountain Valley Killer LaBeet Alive and Well in Cuba", "'The Skyjacker's Tale': Film Review | TIFF 2016", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fountain_Valley_massacre&oldid=1125269550, Crimes in the United States Virgin Islands, Events in the United States Virgin Islands, Racially motivated violence against European Americans, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 3 December 2022, at 03:39. Territory 42 he denied he was from Maine or had any connection to the murders. There are some fine courts available at several hotelsthe Buccaneer. Boston Globe November 10 1886. The crime is real. USVI now boasts the 4th highest murder rate in the world per capita. The victim was transported to the Gov. Territory 1 Indeed, with 15 rooms, restaurant, bar and swimming pool and a location just three miles up the beach from Christiansted, one of the island's two urban centers, it seemed an ideal investment for an amiable couple who wanted to spend the rest of their lives the blue Caribbean. Individuals seeking St. Croix County criminal records can also obtain the document from the Wisconsin Crime Information Bureau. STX 1 24,733,603 readers and counting. The second was transported from the scene via ambulance to the Schneider Regional Medical Center, where he later died. That . When they read about murders in St. Croix, they are likely to say Who needs it? and head instead for Barbados or Palm Beach. Territory 44 When he got home, he wrote some doggerel for his paper which went: St., Croix is a bad place to visit And don't live therethe tension's exquisite. Update: Landlord of Billy's mother finds rake and flashlight in back yard yesterday (3-01-08) Being born and bred Crucians, the island holds an extra-special place in our hearts. "[2], LaBeet, who escaped from custody and fled to Cuba in 1984, has denied this version of events, as well as any involvement at all in the shooting. And, of course, some whites fear that militant blacks are about to attack them. A new spate of alarmist stories filled the mainland press. (Photo by Judi Shimel).#VISource #thesource #usvi #LocalNews #linkinbio Whats That? [8] LaBeet was the subject of the 2016 documentary film The Skyjacker's Tale. A man was shot and killed in the Mon Bijou area of St. Croix. The arrestees are charged with murder in the first degree, assault in the first degree, assault in the third degree, carrying of firearms openly or concealed, possession of ammunition and discharging or aiming firearms and other additional charges, said Elskoe. I def agree Netflix or someone should pick up unsolved mysteries maybe we could make a hashtag! These incidents are under investigation. Perpetrators. Applies for Extension of EDA Benefits, RTPark May Begin Offering Loans to Entice New Enterprise, Holding Space Art Exhibition Opens at Studio Walsh Friday, Westend Pups Get Health Care at Ruff Start Canine Rescue, stjohnsource.com/2023/01/16/wastenot-workshop-promotes-compost-production/. They're still at the stage Americans were at in 1967 and 1968, the time of the Detroit and Newark riots, yet there's something unreal about that kind of talk down here. From July, 1973, on, cruise ship arrivals went down like the glide path of a brick, says John Thomas, executive secretary of the St. Croix Chamber of Commerce. STX 17 St. Barts. Officers found an unresponsive young black male . At dusk, Edsel and Carmen left home in their pick-up truck. Five people die by cyanide in phony voodoo ritual on St. Croix. Save. Three shots were fired and my wife's belongings stolen at the Coral Princess, in Christiansted just feet from our beach side condo. We started getting some cancellations. At about 5:10 p.m. Aug. 16, the 911 Emergency Call Center received a report of shots fired at the corner of King Street and Market Street in downtown Frederiksted. 20 Which Caribbean country has the highest crime rate? 2.6Kshares. The Dominican Republic. But the Mafia wants tourists here to play the tables. Two of the victims were transported to the Schneider Regional Medical Center by private vehicle, and the other was transported to the hospital via ambulance. Were all five deaths the work of an Obiaman? The woes of the Tamarind Reef may be worse than those of a few of the more established hotels on the island but they are by no means unrepresentative. The problem is poverty, combined with a poor educational system, fatherless homes and a corrupt and ineffective police department. St Croix is fairly safe, but not as crime free as St John. Five men were arrested for the golf course killings, tried and convicted in August. We are going where people are, Velinor said. Emergency medical technicians on the scene concluded he had no signs of life. Officers responding to the scene found the body of a male, dead from an apparent gunshot wound. Sheriff's Office. About 20 residents filled the seats at Gifft Hill School for a demonstration led by St. Thomas artisan Jason Budsan.Read more: stjohnsource.com/2023/01/16/wastenot-workshop-promotes-compost-production/: Jason Budsan leads a demonstration at composting workshop. Product Identifiers. Increasing food security while trimming the waste stream in the Virgin Islands were the dual goals of a composting workshop held on St. John. St. Croix County Government Administrative Offices and Circuit Courts will be closed Monday, January 16 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. day. If you have a news tip to share, please call or text us at 340-228-8784. The perpetrators were five Virgin Islanders, Raphael Joseph, Ishmael LaBeet, Meral Smith, Warren Ballentine, and Beaumont Gereau. The St. Croix EMS & Rescue Dive Team hosted a nationally certified Underwater Crime Scene Investigation Course in Hudson Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Date of death March 20 Many hotel managers and others who make their living off this island's once booming tourist industry often feel like crying these days. He was never recaptured. Not in a dark alley someplace. But it seemed like an isolated incident. The violence has been " marketed" as non tourist, black on black, gang crime only in pockets. Date of death Aug. 17 We know that informed communities are empowered ones. Emergency medical technicians on the scene concluded that the men did not have any vital signs. Anyone with information about these shootings, please call Crime Stoppers VI at 1-800-222-8477 or submit an anonymous tip online. Not surprisingly, then, these two acts raised the question of whether a black movement was developing here which would pose a growing threat to whites visiting or living on the island. Juan F. Luis Hospital for treatment. Date of death Aug. 16 According to Haig Caesars wife, Rosmund, her husband told her that he had paid $100,000 in cash to an Obiaman, who claimed that he could remove the evil spirits: What he said is, that the man had told him that there were three large jars of coins buried on the property that we owned and that the coins were being guarded by spirits, ancient spirits. At a news conference on Saturday, St. Croix County Sheriff Scott Knudson called the attack "chaotic" and "scary," and said the area hadn't seen a crime like this in at least a decade and . The similarities in all three cases go far beyond mere coincidence. At around 8:17 a.m. July 31, the 911 Emergency Call Center received a report of shots fired at H. H. Tire & Battery in Estate Pearl. During a previous press conference after the shooting, Velinor vowed that the department would bring justice. The victim then stated that he was being attacked. Lottery office worker Stacie Schjang, 46, died after a stray bullet .pierced a window in her Castle Coakley home on January 27. The item which has aroused the most anger of late came from Dewey Harrison, who writes for the West Hartford (Conn.) News. I have to tell you that we won't be coming to St. Croix this year. Five Afro-Caribbean men. Unlike many news organizations, we haven't put up a paywall we want to keep our journalism as accessible as we can. Phone: (340) 778-2211 Fax: (340) 778-2373 Crime Line: (340) 778-4950. Plus, the $54,000 in cash was missing. After a long hard talk we decided it was best for the family to remain at home, but come later when things are settled. Or this from a family in Chatham, N. J.: Unfortunately there has been so much adverse publicity about St. Croix in our newspapers that we all have decided not to come to St. Croix this coming February.. The body was not identified until DNA testing was completed in September. Aliensblacks from other small Caribbean islands farther down the Antilles chain who have migrated here in recent years to meet a chronic labor shortage. Officers responded and found a lifeless male in the water. The murders occurred two months after Ojo had gotten out of the Army. The other two victims are in stable condition. Sixteen miles away, a body was discovered on the side of the road. At about 1:19 p.m. the 911 emergency call center received a report of shots fired and someone calling for help on Queen Mary Highway, near Estate Whim. The search fee on WORCS is $7.00, with an additional $5.00 for parties looking to obtain a hard copy of the report by mail. 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