Police officers and Limetree Bay representatives discuss the DOA incident Wednesday morning. Photo Credit: ERNICE GILBERT FOR VI CONSORTIUM
ST. CROIX — Police were still on the scene at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday outside the Limetree Bay Man Camp on Hess Road — the village where mostly off-island employees of the company reside — investigating an incident where one man, a white male, was found dead on the east side of the road.
The matter is being investigated as a dead on arrival (D.O.A.) incident, according to police sources. The victim was found on the side of the road near the Armapavi Ballpark.
Police have yet to classify the cause of death, and homicide was not ruled out. "Right now the incident has to be classified as a D.O.A. and we're going to have to determine through an autopsy if there's any blunt force trauma to the body," said a police officer to the Consortium.
A matter of interest to investigators is how the victim ended up near a gutter/storm-water drainage on the roadside. One theory is that the victim could have been struck by a vehicle and fell on the east side of the road. Another scenario is that the victim was placed there.
Representatives of Limetree Bay, where the victim worked, and V.I.P.D. investigators were seen discussing the incident.
The V.I.P.D. is asking anyone with information of what occurred to send an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers USVI here.
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