A St. Croix man is dead after a late-night shooting Tuesday on St. Croix, the V.I. Police Department reported.
Officers responding to a 911 call about shots fired on Peter’s Farm Road in Christiansted just before midnight found an unresponsive man with multiple gunshot wounds, according to the report.
The victim was identified by next of kin as Angel Casanova, 33, of Estate Friedensthal, Christiansted.
Preliminary investigation revealed that Casanova was shot multiple times to the upper body while he was sitting in his vehicle, the report stated. His death marks St. Croix’s 15th homicide of the year, and brings the territory’s total to 35, according to the Source Homicide List.*
The case remains under investigation and anyone with information about this shooting or any other should call the Criminal Investigation Bureau at 340-778-2211, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), or 911.
* The Source Homicide List is a chronological log of the homicides recorded in 2024 in the U.S. Virgin Islands, as reported by the VIPD. Cases are broken down by island. While this listing is based on VIPD reports, the Source does not include suicides or vehicular homicides in its listing, which the police and some other media do. This can lead to a discrepancy in the number of incidents reported.
