John McCarthy
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police on St. Thomas say they are investigating a report of shots fired and a man down in the Bovoni housing project early on Tuesday.
Harim Prince, 29, was reported dead by police sources but not the Virgin Islands Police Department the day of the runoff election.
According to the police report, at 1:56 a.m. police from the Major Crimes Unit were dispatched to the Bovoni housing Community Building B on a report of shots fired and a man down.
At the scene, police and EMTs found a black man lying on the ground by Building B with multiple gunshot wounds to the body and no vital signs.
Prince was transported to the morgue at the Schneider Regional Medical Center immediately afterwards.
Police did not issue an official report to the Virgin Islands Free Press as of today.
Governor Kenneth Mapp got 20 percent of the vote on election day in St. Thomas.
