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BVI Police Probe Killings of 2 Men Shot Inside Roadside Bar – Virgin Islands Daily News

ROAD TOWN, Tortola — Police in the British Virgin Islands are investigating a shooting inside a bar that left two men dead and two others injured.

According to Royal Virgin Islands Police Force Press Officer Diane Drayton two men from the East End-Long Look community were shot dead around 8:30 p.m. Friday night inside Wayside Inn Bar in Vanterpool Estate.

Another two men were injured in the incident and are currently hospitalized.

Witnesses told police that eight shots reportedly were fired in the bar on the Blackburn Highway, which is located in an area known as 42nd Street, 250 feet west of Fine Foods Supermarket. It was the second shooting incident in the bar in six years.

“Police can confirm that two persons are unresponsive and two are injured at the scene of a shooting incident in East End this evening,” Diane Drayton said in a brief statement. “No other information is available at this time,” Dayton said via statement shortly after the incident Friday

As of the Daily News press time Sunday police had not made any arrests in the killing.

A video making the rounds on social media, however, showed one of the men shirtless in blue jeans on his back on the bar’s floor, with a trail of blood on his left side.

By DEAN GREENAWAY/Virgin Islands Daily News

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