The Virgin Islands Police Department positively identified the man found dead in the early hours of Friday, July 11, as Renaldo Antonio Lettsome, 49, officials said Thursday.
The police department received notice of shots fired in the lower Kronprindsens Gade area shortly after 2:30 Friday morning. They found Lettsome lying unresponsive in an abandoned wooden structure with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body, police said. Emergency medical responders confirmed he was dead a short time later.
Lettsome’s family confirmed his identity later that day.
Lettsome’s death marks the ninth homicide of the year on St. Thomas, and the 20th for the territory, according to the Source Homicide List.*
