St. Thomas Woman Shenika Muhammed Arrested For Allegedly Stabbing Male Acquaintance

ARRESTED: Shenika Muhammed on St. Thomas

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CHARLOTTE AMALIE — A woman was charged Saturday with third-degree assault/domestic violence after she allegedly stabbed a male acquaintance and destroyed his property, according to authorities.

The Virgin Islands Police Department’s Domestic Violence Unit traveled to the Schneider Regional Medical Center to interview the victim about an alleged assault at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday.

Police met with the man, who was being treated for knife wounds at the hospital and he told them a woman he knows stabbed him twice in his arm with a kitchen knife and destroyed items in his apartment.

The man had two visible cuts on his forearm that required stitches, according to hospital officials.

Police also went to the man’s property at an undisclosed location and said that items in it had indeed been “destroyed.”

Shenika Muhammed, 33, of St. Thomas was arrested later that day after being positively identified by the victim.

As per the territory’s domestic violence statute, no bail was offered to Muhammed.

She was remanded to the Bureau of Corrections (BOC) pending her advisement hearing.

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.