FREDERIKSTED — Police in St. Croix are investigating after a non-resident male was stabbed in the neck fatally at a disability home on King Street in Frederiksted town last night.
The homicide victim, who has not yet been identified by the Virgin Islands Police Department, was staying with his brother in his mother’s apartment at Bougainvillea Gardens in St. Croix.
The two brothers were violating the rules of the disability home by staying with their mother, residents told the Virgin Islands Free Press today.
Bougainvillea Gardens disability home on King Street in Frederiksted town was the site of the fatal stabbing just after midnight on St. Croix.
Bougainvillea Gardens is owned and operated by Lutheran Social Services of the Virgin Islands, according to residents.
The federally-funded housing consists of 14 subsidized apartments in Frederiksted town, and “provide service-enriched, independent living for adults with disabilities,” according to the LSSVI website.
The three story facility opened on King Street in 2007. It has 12 one-bedroom apartments, two two-bedroom apartments, an elevator, and a community room on the first floor.
The VIPD did not immediately respond to messages asking for comment about this breaking news story.
Lutheran Social Services of the Virgin Islands was offered the opportunity to comment on the tragedy of a life lost, but callously chose not to.
“We don’t have any comment at this time,” Kimberly Gereau, the director of LSSVI’s office of public relations and development, told the V.I. Freep this afternoon.