Help Cops Find Missing Person Kassahun Diop Stapleton-Harris on St. Thomas

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police need your help to find a man who is missing on St. Thomas.

Kassahun Diop Stapleton-Harris, 26. of Anna’s Retreat, was last seen Monday in Red Hook on St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.

Stapleton-Harris was last seen wearing black knee-length jeans, a red t-shirt and black Crocs shoes, according to the VIPD.

The missing person is a black male with brown eyes and black hair. He stands 5-feet, 6-inches tall and weighs 150 pounds.

He is known to frequent Vitraco Park and its surrounding areas on St. Thomas.

Stapleton-Harris drives a black Toyota Rav 4 with Virgin Islands license plate number THA-689.

If you see Kassahun Diop Stapleton-Harris please call 911 or the Virgin Island Police Department’s Major Crime Unit at 340-642-8449.

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.