Panic move saves driver from gunman
A 29-year-old man narrowly escaped what appears to have been a brazen armed robbery attempt in Cane Garden Bay after instinctively accelerating his vehicle when confronted by a masked gunman carrying a high-powered rifle.
BVI News understands the frightening encounter unfolded shortly after midnight earlier this week as the man was leaving a party.
According to well-placed sources, the victim left the party around midnight. As he sat in the driver’s seat of his car, he was suddenly confronted by two masked men.
One of the suspects reportedly pointed what appeared to be a rifle directly at the victim through the vehicle’s windshield. Instead of remaining stationary, the startled motorist reportedly slammed on the accelerator and sped away from the scene.
It’s understood that the gunman tried to stop the moving vehicle but had to quickly retreat to prevent sustaining injuries himself. The matter was later reported to the police, who have since processed the victim’s vehicle for evidence and revisited the scene. Police have also identified several surveillance cameras in the area and are using the footage to assist with the investigation.
The latest incident comes amid ongoing concerns about violent crime across the territory. In recent months, the BVI has seen a series of daring robberies, including brazen daylight attacks on businesses in Road Town and robberies targeting people in various communities.
The incidents have renewed public debate over personal safety, with some residents and business owners arguing that law-abiding citizens should be allowed to carry licensed firearms for self-defence. Others, however, have cautioned that expanding access to firearms could create additional risks, insisting that stronger policing and crime prevention measures remain the better long-term solution.
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BVI better start an aggressive crackdon NOW!!! f@ck family and who might get caught up , these criminals are becoming more brazen and desperate. You are jepordizing your tourist product. An all out no nonsense effort needs to be executed immediately.
Cause once them tourists stop coming thats a shot in the leg for ourselves
St Croix went down that path in the late 70s and the reputation still haunts them today . They never fully recovered. And with the proliferation of social media we only need 1 horrific incident . Lets be proactive. As the poster stated dont get mad if you have Family doing grime and they pay the consequence. Talk to them on get thom out of the bahaviour now.
very Early 70’s for St.Croix. I was a child on the island when that tragedy happened.
I believe a tourist was brutally raped on Carambola beach and her boyfriend killed . It made international news then and that was before social media. I believe it was several incidents.
That’s not factual. Please research before you post, hypothetical bs. There was even a movie and books on Fountain Valley; Carambola Resort was not around back then.
You are right I was not factual it was 8 people murdered and 8 other wounded . So according to your clown logic it didnt happen on “Crambola beach” because that is not what it was called at the time . With that kind of bozo logic even thought the World trade Center is no longer called WTC the planes didnt fly into that building. So lets pretend that ST. Croix didnt have an issue .
Its that kind of logic that is used to justify the crime in the BVI : the jobs are all taken by expats so they dont have any way to earn a living, the govt not providing any training, when there are jobs they are being discrimiated against because they are black, all the other BS just like this person practically denyiny that this happened. with this thinking its not long efore it happens in BVI
We need a Donald Trump or a facsimile.
We need to arrest our desire and pattern of self anhialation.
I don’t see any of the above occurring, only because we are always in need of blaming the yt man no matter how obvious the doers of illwill in our sanctuary repeatedly destroying what we once was,,,Their overwhelming putrid presence is like a neverending plague and they keep sprouting like a fungus on repeat.
When young men refuse to aquire a skill and start a legitimate business that’s what you would get from them, the access is blocked to non belongers and who has access doesn’t wants it, parents need to put these men out, stop protecting criminals,if UK step in most won’t like it.
You think it is overly easy for belongers or bvislanders to get things in this country?
You have no idea.
Bad boys have guns. John & Jane Public have none (legally) and thus are at the mercy of these brazen wannabe thugs.
Another example of outdated laws to st have not kept pace with the realities of modern society and the risks now facing us. You cannot even go out to enjoy company without now having to watch over your shoulders. This isn’t the first or second time this has happened. Only select private citizens here can obtain legal gun license while the vast majority cannot. Yet as summer is here and festival looming, predators will be out hunting easy prey. That’s y’all folks!
BVI done a good job at burying this serious incident to keep the tourist money coming in. Hope them tourist arrive with bullet proof vests.
You people were welcomed as migrants in bvi and still hate on bvi. Wow
partna I a local, my great-grandfather ambilical cord cut in Stanley, wa everybody calling Sea Cows Bay today. Use that maths and c how far back my roots are.
Aint nttn bout hating, is facts. Cause how we going keep turning a blind eye to crime?
I would’ve run his mds over with my vehicle!!
Surely it was someone trying to steal gold chains.
Next time run them over and change them PERMANENTLY
Young Black males with ties to the CARICOM are the perpetuating scums.
No arrest with imprisonmentsince these VI prison,built specifically for their arrival to these shores sat will,has for along while agour been over inhabited and beyond capacity.
These will not be “located”or if the unlikely happens and they are somehow arrested they or a few other inmates will forever become “escapees” and melt away never ever to be located.
The import of thesee reliable grossmisfits and pretenders of humanity will continue to be imported and given access to their desired criminal habits as their birthright. Evidently the methodology of assist in the local ” businessmen”
monkey business..participants with a wjnkwjnk assist and protection from elected crooks.
I call it as I see and read it..
The imprisoned interlopers a group of non BVIsla ders are living the life of Riley up and above our civil servants and citizens.at the expense of crimbling infrastru ture and services..,millions expended yearly to foster a pretense of BVI doing their
best hahaha..
Rule out with certainty :
South Africans
Fillipinos
Asians
Caucasians of any and all Nationalitiees
Sned them all back where they came from!!
That will work. Your never see Hodge, Penn, Fahie Wheatley, Sylvester up to these tricks.
VI People need to be given guns to protect themselves from these Caricom hoodlums.
Wait. February 26, 2026 – The office of the Premier of the British Virgin Islands has confirmed that the British Overseas Territory will now pursue full membership in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The BVI joined as an Associate Member in July, 1991.
So it would seem as an Associate Member, if we ever had any crooks (only those people without businesses or children) they also are Caricom Young Black perpetuating scum males.
I WOULD HAVE RUN HIM OVER REVERSE THE VEHICLE AND RUN OVER HIS BODY A FEW TIMES UNTILL HE WAS CHOP UP MEAT ON THE ROAD WHERE A SHOVEL WOULD HAVE BEEN NEEDED TO SCRAPE UP WHAT WAS LEFT OF HIM.
Totally agree. Anyone try to do that to me be it man or woman I am going to run them the hell down and keep running my car over them.They are not going to lock me up because it was self defense.
WE KNOW ITS YOU WIGGIE – ON THE LOOSE AGAIN ,. FLEXING OFF YOUR USUAL DIRTY MINDED & RACIST MENTALITY NARRATIVES EXPOSING WHATS IN YOU, YOU GOT TO BE SUFFERING FROM SOME KIND OF SIDE EFFECTS FROM THOSE MEDICATIONS YOU’RE ON ( YOU CANNOT BE NATURAL – OR REAL – NAAAAHHHHH •¿• ( WE DON’T BELIEVE IT .
Bring in them Jamaican police officers to wipe them all out once and for all. Works for other places.
Who says they are not locals?
baaai gonna be eating cream o wheat for 2 weeks straight
Again… that incident happened at Fiuntain Valkey Golf Course. It was never at a hotel.