{"id":16932,"date":"2015-02-02T12:47:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T12:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=16932"},"modified":"2015-02-02T13:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T13:00:45","slug":"man-shot-dead-at-coki-point-beach-on-st-thomas-islands-fourth-homicide-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=16932","title":{"rendered":"Man Shot Dead At Coki Point Beach On St. Thomas, Island&#8217;s Fourth Homicide For 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A St. Thomas man was shot to death at Coki Point beach in St. Thomas Saturday night, recording\u00a0the island&#8217;s fourth homicide this year, and\u00a0the territory&#8217;s sixth.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Police was dispatched to the scene at about 8:45 p.m. and found the man, identified as 39-year-old Anthony Charles, lying near the beach&#8217;s vendor buildings. St. Thomas Police Chief Darren Foy said the man appeared to have sustained gunshot wounds to the body, but \u00a0he added there was no more information to be shared with the public at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The territory&#8217;s first homicide occurred on St. Croix, when\u00a0Jose Miguel Hernandez Rosa, 29, of Marley Homes,<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/featured\/man-shot-dead-estate-whim-st-croix\/\" target=\"_blank\">was found fatally wounded<\/a><\/span> by gunfire Jan. 16 in Estate Whim.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 18, 38-year-old Jason Young <a href=\"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/featured\/st-thomas-man-shot-death-ulke-gade\/\" target=\"_blank\">was\u00a0found shot to death<\/a> in Ulke Gade, St. Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 23, police\u00a0ruled the death of Merle Natta, 54, of St.Thomas, a murder <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/featured\/st-thomas-woman-killed-body-left-burning-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">after finding her body in a burning house<\/a><\/span> in Estate Mandal.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 26\u00a0at about 6:15 p.m., St. Thomas police were called to the scene of gunshots fired in the vicinity of Bldg. 21 at the Hidden Valley\u00a0Apartments. When they\u00a0arrived at the location, <a href=\"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/virgin-islands-2\/st-thomas-man-shot-dead-in-hidden-valley-apartments\/\" target=\"_blank\">they found an unresponsive male victim, 21-year-old Ezekiah Joseph<\/a>, suffering from gunshot wounds. He was pronounced\u00a0dead at the scene by\u00a0Emergency Medical Technicians and taken to the Schneider Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 29,\u00a0Lester Jackson, Jr., 26, was arrested and charged with negligent homicide<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/virgin-islands-2\/st-john-man-arrested-charged-with-negligent-homicide-in-deadly-crash\/\"> in the\u00a0death of 16-year-old Elivs Smith, Jr.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>after an investigation by traffic enforcement officers into the Jan. 9 accident on St. John determined that Jackson fell asleep at the\u00a0wheel of his car and lost control of the vehicle, causing it to crash into a utility pole.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credit: Coki Point Beach,\u00a0Rich Lauver<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A St. Thomas man was shot to death at Coki Point beach in St. Thomas Saturday night, recording\u00a0the island&#8217;s fourth homicide this year, and\u00a0the territory&#8217;s sixth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,191,147],"tags":[1043],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Man Shot Dead At Coki Point Beach On St. Thomas, Island&#039;s Fourth Homicide For 2015 - V.I. 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