{"id":31685,"date":"2015-11-20T20:18:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T20:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=31685"},"modified":"2015-11-20T23:02:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T23:02:52","slug":"scorched-body-found-inside-burning-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=31685","title":{"rendered":"Scorched Body Found Inside Burning Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. CROIX &#8212; A scorched body was discovered inside a vehicle that was set on fire\u00a0in Estate Betty\u2019s Hope in the vicinity of the former Texaco site, VIPD Media Specialist Sakeeda Freeman announced this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ms. Freeman, citing a preliminary report, at about 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, the 911 emergency call center received notification of a burning vehicle in Estate Betty&#8217;s Hope, and a subsequent call at 10:37 p.m. of gunshots being fired in the same area.<\/p>\n<p>Responding officers arrived at the location and saw a white pickup truck fully ablaze. The Virgin Islands Fire Service arrived moments later and extinguished fire, and the body was discovered inside the vehicle, according to Ms. Freeman.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the victim has not been released; however once an autopsy has been performed and next of kin has been notified, identifying information will be provided, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The VIPD is asking anyone with\u00a0information concerning this homicide to call the Criminal Investigation Bureau at 340-712-6024, Chief of Police-St. Croix, Arthur Hector Sr. at 340-712-6005, the anonymous tip service, Crime Stoppers USVI at 1-800-222-(TIPS) 8477 or <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crimestoppersusvi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">visit their website<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. CROIX &#8212; A scorched body was discovered inside a vehicle that was set on fire\u00a0in Estate Betty\u2019s Hope in the vicinity of the former Texaco site, VIPD Media Specialist Sakeeda Freeman announced this afternoon. According to Ms. Freeman, citing a preliminary report, at about 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, the 911 emergency call center received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[228,191,2474,147],"tags":[3920,3921,2844,3749,71,121],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scorched Body Found Inside Burning Vehicle - V.I. Consortium<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ST. 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