Virgin Islands Police have arrested a second suspect connected to a May 2024 shooting incident outside the Nirvana Bar & Lounge at the Pan Am Pavilion in Christiansted, St. Croix, the Virgin Islands Police Department announced.
On May 31, 2024, at approximately 12:40 a.m., the 911 Emergency Call Center received reports of gunfire near the bar. Responding officers spoke with a witness who reported seeing a light-skinned man with dreadlocks, wearing a white shirt and jeans, exit the establishment, pull out a handgun, and fire about five shots into the air, according to the police report.
Detectives from the Criminal Investigation Bureau reviewed surveillance footage, which identified the shooter as Hillman Faucher Jr. The video also showed Angela Minto, who was with Faucher at the time, collecting the spent shell casings after he fired. Faucher was arrested on June 6, 2024. On Sept. 23, 2024, a Superior Court judge issued an arrest warrant for Minto, the police report stated.
More than a year later, on Nov. 11, 37-year-old Minto was detained at the Henry E. Rohlsen Airport by Virgin Islands Port Authority and Customs and Border Protection officers. She was taken to the Wilbur H. Francis Police Station, where she was arrested for first-degree reckless endangerment and accessory after the fact, the report stated.
Minto was booked and transported to the John Bell Correctional Facility, pending her advice of rights hearing scheduled for Wednesday in Superior Court, it stated.
