A man died Monday night after a shooting near a gas station in the Sunny Isles area on St. Croix, the Virgin Islands Police Department reported.
Police said the 911 Emergency Call Center received alerts from the ShotSpotter detection system around 7:05 p.m., followed by calls from residents reporting shots fired and a man down near the Gas for Less gas station in Estate Diamond.
Responding officers found a Black male lying on the western side of the gas station, bleeding from his body, according to the police report. Emergency Medical Technicians transported the victim to the Juan F. Luis Hospital, where he later died.
He was identified by next of kin as 41-year-old Emmett Bramble Jr., police said.
Bramble’s death marks the fourth homicide reported this year on St. Croix and the seventh in the territory, with three recorded on St. Thomas and none on St. John, according to the Source Homicide List*.
The Criminal Investigation Bureau is investigating the incident. Anyone with information is asked to call 911, the bureau at 340-778-2211, or Crime Stoppers VI at 800-222-8477.
*The Source Homicide List is a chronological log of homicides recorded in 2026 in the U.S. Virgin Islands based on reports from the Virgin Islands Police Department. The listing does not include suicides or vehicular homicides, which are sometimes counted in police statistics and by other media outlets, creating occasional discrepancies in totals.
