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Nov. 18, 2013
A 42-year-old man, identified by Government House as V.I. National Guard Staff Sergeant David Francois, was fatally shot on a Frederiksted beach. Police were notified of the incident at about 2:30 p.m. when a woman called the Wilbur Francis Command, Zone B at Estate Hannah’s Rest in Frederiksted, the V.I. Police Department reported.
The woman said she and her husband were swimming near the Target Wall Beach, which is not far from the Vincent Mason Coral Beach Pool when her husband decided to get out of the water. The wife said she remained in the water for a while. When she went to where her husband was, she found him unresponsive and suffering from a gunshot wound. When she contacted the police, she told them that she did not hear any gunshots and did not see people or vehicles in the area, according to the police report.
Aug. 11, 2023
At around 3:55 pm, 911 received a call of an unresponsive man in the area of the garbage dumpsters in Bolongo on St. Thomas. The caller stated that the man appeared to have been shot. Units from the Virgin Islands Police Department traveled and found an unresponsive Black man who appeared to have sustained gunshots to his body, according to the police report.
Emergency Medical Technicians concluded that the man did not have any vital signs. The man’s next of kin identified him as 39-year-old Daryn Hodge, the police report stated.
