On Friday July 21, 2017 at approximately 2:15 am St. Thomas police received reports of shots fired and two males on the ground in the Smith Bay area, vicinity of Lake’s Chicken Fry restaurant.

Responding officers arrived in the area of Value Foods convenience store and observed a male who appeared to have suffered at least one gunshot, lying on the steps just outside the business. A few feet away outside of the Lake’s Chicken Fry restaurant, officers discovered a second male who also appeared to have been a victim of gunshot(s). Both males were unresponsive and were pronounced dead in the scene. The names of the male victims are being withheld pending notification of next of kin. Please provide Crime Stoppers USVI with any information that you may have in this matter.

The Virgin Islands Police Department Cold Case Unit on St. Croix is asking for assistance with information regarding the death of Deron Francis AKA “Motto” whose lifeless body was found on Monday July 4, 2011 at around 12:23am in the vicinity of the Randolph Lockhart School, Orange Grove, Christiansted after a concerned citizen alerted the 911.