Crime

Victims Identified: Two Men Found Dead in St. Croix Gunshot Incidents Sunday Morning; Homicide Toll Reaches 40

ST. CROIX — Two men were found dead Sunday morning in gunshot incidents at different locations on St. Croix, one near the G-Max Service Station in Golden Rock and the other at the D. Hamilton Jackson Housing Community, commonly known as Red Brick, where police are investigating an apparent suicide. The Golden Rock killing brought the U.S. Virgin Islands' homicide count for 2026 to 40, according to V.I. Consortium tracking. According to the V.I. Police Department, its gunshot detection system alerted the 911 Emergency Call Center to shots fired near G-Max Service Station in Golden Rock, Christiansted, at approximately 7:15 a.m. on October 11. Officers and emergency medical technicians responded and discovered an unresponsive man. The deceased was identified as 50-year-old Arlington Wilburt Hobson. At approximately 8:09 a.m., police received another report, this time concerning a man with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at the D. Hamilton Jackson Housing Community. The man was...