FREDERIKSTED — Virgin Islands Police are searching for a 17-year-old minor on St. Croix who fled after firing shots at his father.
Officers responded to a 911 call for shots discharged in a residential area in Estate Whim around 8:22 p.m. on Thursday.
The minor’s father told officers that his son was kicked out of the house, as he had previously “reprimanded him for not following the house rules,” the Virgin Islands Police Department said.
When the son returned Thursday night “to get some belongings and to get a shower,” his father told him no, which led to a verbal altercation, according to the VIPD.
“At that point, he stepped back away from him, discharged a few bullets at him and fled the area,” VIPD Communications Director Glen Dratte said, adding that the father was uninjured by the shooting.
Police are still trying to locate the minor.
Anyone with information on the incident can call St. Croix’s Criminal Investigation Bureau at 340-778-4950, 340-712-6040 or USVI Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.