A 44-year-old man was arrested Thursday after reports of gunfire at the John F. Kennedy Housing Apartments on St. Croix, the Virgin Islands Police Department reported.
According to police, at about 3 p.m. on Thursday, the 911 Emergency Call Center received several calls and ShotSpotter notifications indicating shots fired in the JFK area. Responding officers spoke with witnesses who identified the shooter as Waldo Knight.
Detectives with the Criminal Investigation Bureau launched an investigation and obtained a telephonic search warrant from a Superior Court judge. During a search of the apartment Knight entered after the shooting, police recovered a firearm and several pieces of firearm paraphernalia, according to the police report.
Knight was arrested on charges of first-degree reckless endangerment, carrying a firearm openly or concealed, possession or sale of ammunition, and illegal discharge of a firearm, the police report stated.
He was transported to the Wilbur H. Francis Command Police Station, advised of his Miranda Rights, and declined to give a statement, according to the release. Knight was booked and unable to post bail set at $30,000 and $50,000. He was later taken to the John Bell Correctional Facility pending his advice of rights hearing, the report stated.
