A man on St. Croix was shot dead Saturday at Sunny Isle Shopping Center Parking Lot, the V.I. Police Department reported.
Shots fired were reported to the 911 Call Center by concerned citizens Saturday night. Officers were dispatched to the scene and, upon arrival, found an unresponsive Black male in a vehicle who appeared to have suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body, the police report stated.
Emergency Medical Technicians on the scene were unable to detect any of the man’s vital signs, it said, and the victim succumbed to his injuries from the gunshot wounds on the scene, according to the police report.
The victim has been identified by next of kin as 20-year-old Andy Christian, police said.
This killing is the first homicide of 2023 on St. Croix and marks the third homicide of the year for the territory, according to the Source Homicide List.*
This incident is an active investigation. Anyone with information about this shooting, please
call the CIB Tip-Line at 340-778-4850, 911 or Crime Stoppers V.I. at 1-800-222-TIPS.
*The Source Homicide List is a chronological log of the homicides recorded in 2023 in the U.S. Virgin Islands, as reported by the VIPD. Cases are broken down by island. 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 can lead to a discrepancy in the number of incidents reported.