Crime

Man Arrested for Allegedly Firing Gunshot at Paradise Mills Housing Community

ST. CROIX — Bail has been set for a man who admitted to firing a gunshot at a housing complex.  Calvin Parker was arrested on Friday night after officers on mobile patrol overheard what appeared to be a single gunshot from the direction of the Paradise Mills Housing apartments in Frederiksted. According to the probable cause fact sheet, police traveled to the area where they observed three unknown men behind the first row of buildings on the western side. While approaching the area where they believed the gunshot was fired, they noticed a woman attempting to walk towards the back of the building and they instructed her to go back inside her apartment for her own safety. The officers then proceeded to where they saw the three men and instructed them to get down on the ground with their hands visible. All three men complied. The officers observed a small handgun on the ground near one of the men later identified as Calvin Parker. Parker and the other two individuals, one of whom was id...