CHRISTIANSTED — The North Carolina man who was killed at Castaway’s Bar thought that the armed holdup was a put-on when it was happening in real time — and he never left his stool up at the bar until he was shot.
Derrick Lynn Cribb, of Whiteville, N.C., was shot just before 11:39 p.m. on Wednesday but considered the armed robbery a hoax at the time — and he paid the ultimate price for his Estate Solitude mistake — death within two hours.
Three masked men entered the popular East Bar & Restaurant with guns and demanded that all the patrons lay on the ground.
“He was shot because he didn’t go down to the ground,” Virgin Islands Police Department spokesman Glen Dratte told the Virgin Islands Free Press exclusively today. “The guy was having a good time drinking.”
I cant believe that someone would report news like this. Derrick was a good man over there helping people rebuild their homes. He went to help your families. The thanks he gets is people talking junk about him and acting like it was his fault for being murdered. He left his family behind to help other. It is a cruel world we live in and the pain we deal with each day is unbearable. The people who write these articles only think about themselves. They should think about his family and how by putting news out like this slanders his good name. I love my husband very much and to see such things wrote makes me sick.