UPDATE: Victim in fatal shooting identified
The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) has released the identity of the gunshot victim in this morning’s fatal shooting incident.
He has been identified as 25-year-old resident of Purcell Estate resident, Julio Rivera.
Rivera was found with multiple gunshot wounds about his body in the main parking lot on Wickham’s Cay I.
He was subsequently pronounced dead at the scene.
“Officers of the Major Crime Team have since launched investigations into this matter and are determined to find those responsible for this cowardly act. Persons with information in relation to this incident can confidentially contact the Crime Stoppers line 800-8477 (TIPS) or overseas call 1-284-800-8477 with the relevant information or contact the RVIPF Intelligence Unit at 368-9339. All provided information will be treated with the utmost confidentiality,” the police stated.
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This is tooooo much
Are the police on the beat in the town or are they reactive
The force is short staffed
Locals do not want to join the force
When you go to join they tell belonger who are here they have too much of …. Nationality applying
The powers that be do not know what tgey are doing
If someone wants to shoot another person, what can the police do about that? You guys sound so f**king stupid!
2am you should be in bed for Monday morning work,unless you are doing your own security work for the Spanish woman to see who going to pick her up,ja ja ja,these woman luring men to their needs and when they can’t have it their way,they tent to jump ship for the next victim,the men’s that get hurt the most is the ones spending the money while the one reaping the benefit are doing favors so they could stay longer in the bvi,certain broken men can’t focus under pressure an they tend to do crazy things for love but at the end of the day someone have to pay the price for used goods.
Many of these bars are centers for drugs, money laundering and prostitution. Most should be closed.
Simmons cross u kill one the police on your side
Leave. Them. H*es.
bring in UK police officers on a 6 month rotation.
the Dutch do it and have good results. no favoritism then. would be nice if everybody had to follow the law.
You sound so stupid bout brining in the UK Police. If you live up here you would see that they are useless. That’s why they are useless there in Tola. Seriously! Talk what you know.
You small minded people are so brainwashed by white superiority.
Uk police are no better thant the locals. Tell me how many murders have been solved by them. None. The UK only come here to get well paid and lime in the bars. Why not change the tactics and pay the locals better im sure more crimes would have been solved. But you schoose to bri g outsiders to police the place that you know and get better paid than you tell me how can that be fair. Tortola is not a real place and its going down hill.
Ohh and more will get kill and these murders will still go unsolved
the borders; controls the smuggling of guns, ammo, drugs, cash, people.
BVI needs UK resources to end smuggling!
And the locals screaming indeeerpendence
They cannot agree on putting a simple plan in place as simple as a Trade Commission to help grow the economy
Look how the opposition walked and the ruling government seems not perturbed by this
Yes scream independence to steal more of taxpayers money and do like the wild west
The drug men can do what they want because they paying everyone who can stop them well and as long as they stick to their own all good BUT they need to find quieter ways to do their business so it doesn’t screw the tourism and financial industries that pays the rest of us and headlines like one shot near republic bank don’t help. The cash money doesn’t pay our bills.
Why the news couldn’t say in the vicinity of republic Bank,or village cay restaurants or the cofe shop,but people are quick to jumb on bar owners as if the bar call them,people tend to go bar off of their own will.
because he just left the bar at village cay owned by a former moister that is full of spanish bartenders maybe 10 of them to serve behind a 10ft bar….
The bar is near Village Cay, not at it.
@ @ Jackie,
Wow! That’s 1 foot per bartender, but I guess those ladies tiny?
Unless the shooting had to do with the business, the business name should not be mentioned. Causing potential damage to the business, which is grounds for a law suit. Journalism 101.
Curiosity kills the cat. You local men need to stop sniffing around those dirty S*D VENEZUELAN AND SANTO DIRTY W…S ALONE.The place is infested with Venezuelan and Santo W….s out to lure, scam and set up the local dumb black men. Those W….s is always saying the local men is dumb and stupid so they are going to play them out of their pockets.
You need to stop generalizing people. There are very bad BVIslanders, just like there are bad Santos etc.
Santo women is known every where not only in the BVI as dirty W…s and skanks. The only thing they knows how to do is scam, beg and sell themselves to the highest bidder with the longest pocket. As a matter of fact, heard from a very reliable source, there are schools in the poor areas of DR that teaches girls how to be W….s, con artist and the art of scamming men out of their money. Don’t let that ME NO PEKEE ENGLEH. ALL PART OF THE GAME. THEY KNOW HOW TO COUNT THAT AMERICAN DOLLAR VERY WELL BUT THEY QUICK TO SAY M E NO PEKEE ENGLEH.
Just lock up irene son them and make sure jail man have no phone… thank me later
Irene son have one of those get out of jail free pass. Dude is deep in the illegal gun running and smuggling operation yet he still get a pass. Guess the other gun runners and smugglers say if he can do it so can I. If it were someone else that does not have a famous last name that person would have been locked under the jail.
The Police called the business name and most likely mentioned it because the person was probably at the night spot.
The gunmen and the drug dealers run the Island. Most of them is related to some of the Tortola famous last names. Perfect example, the hoodlum that got his hand chopped up down Sea Cows Bay not to long ago is into gun running and he keep getting a stay out of jail pass because of mommy last name. Is that fair? I would say no. Sorry to say it, but Tortola is to far gone and is on life support. Maybe in the next 15 to 20 years things will get in order for the best.
OOOOOOOH, so you calling on the police for help now? The same police that you all are dragging through the mud on a daily? You locals don’t want to join the force so shut up and take what you get. Always hollering about the police is not doing their job with brining in the criminals or solving crimes on the Island. Some of you are just dirty hypocrites, the majority of you knows who the criminals are and who is committing the crimes. You keep your mouths shut and not say anything then in the next breath you drop the blame on the police about they are not doing anything. I would agree, Tortola is slowly sinking. Soon the tourist is going to start bailing out of concern for their safety.Y’all better start getting your S together.
They fill that dude up with bullets and left him to die like a dog on the cold hard ground. It seems personal for the amount of bullets they pump in dude. And I bet no one saw anything, BS, someone saw the whole thing go down but of course they are going to keep their mouth shut.
That was some cold blooded s$$t.no one deserve to go out like that. Such a shame these black men is killing their race off one by one. My street CI said a few more is going to get green lit before Xmas.
The killer(s) was in one of those ugly KIA cars that looks like a hearse. I will never rent a KIA on the Island because the criminals my mistake me for their target while I’m driving along minding my business.the streets is saying they were following dude and they caught him of guard in the dark parking lot. That is why you move alone in silence and don’t let anyone know where you are headed or what you are doing.
I as well, I will not rent a KIA car. The criminals rent those cars to do whatever they do. I can’t stand KIA’S and PT CRUISERS.
Just how could all these guns get through customs? Are there boats that arrive daily where passengers and luggage don’t get inspected? Just wondering.
Stop asking silly questions, the guns are coming into the Territory broken down into pieces and packed in furniture and appliances the street is saying the middle Easterners who owns business in Tortola is the ones responsible or have hands in it. Trust and believe Customs is aware of such. People on the Island is afraid of the Middle Easterners.
Yup! the Leb an ese on island allegedly are hooked up with Hez bol lah. This is where they clean their cash, and apparently make some on the side.
Note:
Presently, there are more than one hundred (100) Unsolved Murder in the British Virgin Islands from the Sage Mountain Killings to the present Road Town Killing.
If they start gunning down the politicians and the elites and the important people in high places I bet they will do something about it.
A Short Poem
Welcome to Little Columbia
And the Wild, Wild West
The BVI is becoming a Country
Of pure Lawlessness
Watch the local police numbers jump if they ever get around to legalize cannabis. You can not oppress your own people at home that’s why the force is filled with foreign mercenary types that can not know the people as well as a local officer.
This is way past retarded. & there is a possible police heckling the commenter but if police are being paid the highest job why should they not do a better job. Why should Road Town be deserted and a killing field at night? Do you understand the meaning of security?
It’s willfulness they can’t make this place right & tight with security. If a man goes out to kill it’s a suicide mission or behind bars for life better yet bring back the hanging if they will be in jail with access to the internet.
Next up give citizens the right to fight back if police are going to complain and say they can’t be everywhere then we can’t remain vulnerable waiting for them to clean people up off the ground.
Rip.
MONACO
…….Diverse Population of 36,286
0 (Zero) Murder rate
0 (Zero) Poverty
ST BARTHS
…..Population of 11,000
0 (Zero) Murder rate
0 (Zero) Murder rate
Both Monaco and St Barths;
O (Zero) poverty
0 (Zero) murders
0 (Zero) unemployment
BVI,not too long ago,was in that category.
What changed?
The demograhic of the population was willingly and deliberately changed to dominant population immigrant population of the worst the Caribbean chain offers. The Caribbean countries with the distinction of being #1 in the World’s global murder rate and other crimes. This change was not instituted by the UK and its Representatives, Gov Jasper/Rankin,imported police and Commissioner,or wyt people past and present. Rather,it was systematically rearranged by local elected individuals as a means to carry out their illegal individual monetary gain and enabled by those who tuned a blind eye.
The VI sold its soul to those humans of the Caribbean countries with the distinction of being #1 in the World’s global murder rate and other crimes and the resulting dark curses which they carry.
Mathew 7:6
Read the warning and weep, BVI.
Bit rich to blame immigrants while the former premier is awaiting his court case on charges which (although not included) are closely associated with the many murders in the BVI!
Reading Comprehension and its companions Common Sense and inference are not your strengths.
Suffice to say,you are semi literate.
You are not alone. Another fall out of the grand import and installation,as intended.
Didn’t know stupid had a sound.
BVI News admin ata it as usual. Some comments one can either not get a thumbs up or down. Wonder why they do that.
For those who are asking why all these years, here is why.
There will never be police patrol at night for security of the population, as the higher ups in asmin, who are non locals,chose to have a society unprotected at night.
Security of the people is not their concern when their motives are to have the nation sink to the bottom with uncontroled violence.
The reasoning is, when that happens, such will give way for psuedo political and military decisions to be made and enacted to invade and take over the country and its economic resources, sun, fun other.
Been posting it for years, customs and police administration could be covertly, along with the business wing of the territory, local and foriegn alike, complicit in the gun smuggling into the territory.
Corruption and greed are not relegated to just politicians. Blamingthem could also be a deliberate attempt to keep eyes off of the real source. Tis ting to talk. Jus ask Ning.
Brother/sister, every country has gun violence whether they are dependent or independent.
We are not even dependent, because in the true meaning of the word, we take care of ourselves.
UK’s history is one of prison and prison development only after centuries of supposed war spoils ownership.
Is that any way to treat your children/subjects?
Lets have a scavenger hunt to look for clues, The Docter for our Wellness, the teacher for or education and the ex officer for corrupt and lawless actions. The last one left standing can claim a majestic life!