Crime

VIPD Says 35 People Were Killed Across USVI in 2025, With 19 Homicides in St. Thomas-St. John District and 16 on St. Croix

The V.I. Police Department said Sunday night that the St. Thomas-St. John-Water Island district recorded 19 homicides in 2025, while the St. Croix district recorded 16, according to figures presented during the department’s 2025 recap. Lieutenant Richard Dominguez, chief of detectives for the St. Thomas-Water Island-St. John district, said the district’s 19 homicides represented a 24 percent drop from the previous year. He said the cases ranged from domestic violence incidents to targeted acts of gun violence and isolated interpersonal disputes. On St. Croix, Lieutenant Marisol Colon, commander of the Criminal Investigation Bureau, said the district recorded 16 homicides in 2025. Together, the figures presented by the department amount to 35 homicides across the two police districts in the Virgin Islands. Dominguez said investigators in the St. Thomas-St. John-Water Island district arrested and charged four suspects in homicide cases during 2025, obtained an arrest warrant for one ...