POLICE: St. Thomas Man Stabbed In Leg By Two Other Men on Monday Morning

John McCarthyPosted oninAt VIFreep, Breaking News, Crime News, Police News, St. Thomas News

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A unidentified man who told police he was stabbed in the leg by two other men was treated and released from the St. Thomas hospital yesterday.

The 911 Emergency Call Center dispatched police to the Schneider Regional Medical Center about 10:57 a.m. on Monday to investigate an alleged assault.

The man, who was being treated for stab wounds to the right leg, told police that two men he could not identify had assaulted him with a knife.

The man did not say if each man stabbed him or just one of them.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Criminal Investigations Bureau in St. Thomas at (340) 774-2211, or Crime Stoppers USVI.

John McCarthy

John F. McCarthy is a veteran journalist in the Caribbean, writing from the "Decision Space" where survival meets the surreal. His reporting steel was tempered by a lineage of legendary editors and broadcasters, including Ed Wynn Brant (The Bomb), Owen Eschenroder (Ann Arbor News), Lynelle Emanuel (BVI Beacon), and Charles Thanas (WSVI-TV). Alongside longtime colleague Kenneth C. "Casey" Clark, McCarthy has navigated the front lines of the territory’s history—from the 1997 volcanic "snow" to every major hurricane since Hugo. Known for leaning out of doorless helicopters to capture the "money shot," McCarthy now edits the V.I. Free Press, providing the essential link between the island's colonial past and its SpaceX future.