A late-night shooting Saturday on Queen Street in Frederiksted, St. Croix, left two men dead, the Virgin Islands Police Department announced.
At approximately 11:48 p.m., ShotSpotter technology alerted officers to multiple gunshots in the area. Responding officers found spent shell casings, bullet-riddled vehicles, and the body of a deceased man seated near Yolanda’s Bar. He was identified at the scene by a relative as 53-year-old Juan Rexach-Ramos, according to the police report.
Shortly after, the 911 Emergency Call Center received a report of an injured man transported from the scene to Juan F. Luis Hospital, where he later died. A relative identified him as 28-year-old Daniym Heywood, the police report stated.
The case remains under active investigation.
Rexach-Ramos and Heywood’s deaths mark the second and third homicides for 2025 for St. Croix. The territory now stands at five homicides this year, with St. Thomas recording two and St. John none, according to the Source Homicide List.*
Detectives with the Criminal Investigation Bureau urge anyone with information to contact the CIB Tip Line at 340-778-4850, Crime Stoppers VI at 800-222-8477 (TIPS), or 911.
*The Source Homicide List is a chronological log of the homicides recorded in 2025 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.
