Police Need Your Help To Find 14-Year-Old Yomarize Davis On St. Croix: VIPD

KINGSHILL — Police need your help tonight to find a missing teenager on St. Croix.

Yomarize Davis, 14, of the Profit Hills Apartments has been reported missing by her family, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.

Davis is a Hispanic female who stands 5 feet 7 inches tall, and weighs 115 pounds. She has black hair, brown eyes, and a light complexion.

Yomarize has a burn mark on her right leg. She is known to frequent the Profit Hills Apartents at mid-island (formerly Harvey Project).

“She was last seen at her residence in Estate Paradise on August 8 at 3 a.m., wearing camouflage pajamas,” VIPD spokesman Toby Derima said.

UPDATE: Police said on August 17, 2021 that Davis was “located,” but said nothing further on Facebook.

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.