Franklin E. Penn Jr & 11-y-old Trinity A. Thomas are murder victims
Police reported that the vehicle the victims were in was on the West End public road in the area of the graveyard around 9:30 PM when at least two scooter riders rode up to it and fired indiscriminately.
The death of a child
The VI crime and gun cultures have also hit a new low with the brutal, unfortunate, reprehensible, sad and unforgivable murder of St George’s primary school student, 11 year old Trinity A. Thomas.
The minor was at the time sitting in the back of the SUV, when she was hit by gun shots. Her death has sparked outrage from parents, teachers, social workers, civil society, the media, the Police Commissioner and some in the political class.
Young Trinity was preparing for high school next year, according to family members.
The VI has been rocked over the past two years by a spate of gun crimes and homicides in the tiny British Overseas Territory with a population of approximately 35,000 residents.
It is also our understanding that the shooting victim who survived, Guyanese Romona Moses, 36, the mother of Trinity, underwent surgery yesterday November 23, 2017 at Peebles Hospital and has shown signs of improvement, according to hospital and family sources.
Penn was a public servant
Meanwhile, the other person who died was local Franklin E. Penn Jr, 41, of Parham Town, a senior Air Traffic Controller at the Terrence B. Lettsome International Airport Tower. He has worked as an Air Traffic Controller for over 20 years. Many staff members at the BVI Airports Authority have been saddened and it’s our understanding that today a counsellor will be on hand at the Agency to provide counselling and support.
The Board of Directors, Management and Staff of Virgin Islands News express our condolences to the families of both Trinity A. Thomas and Franklin E. Penn Jr on their tragic loss.
60 Responses to “Franklin E. Penn Jr & 11-y-old Trinity A. Thomas are murder victims”
U know what hurts the most, the low life skumb bags are reading this, u all piece of sh*ts, Your mother's got to be feeling so worthless now, Even if they don't know u did this, the universe will send them the vibes!
Rip
I cannot begin to understand how these people are capable of committing such crimes. These weren't always bad people. They went tp school with me, they went to school with you. What happened that made these people the way they are. How can they get to a point in their life that is so low that allow them to committ acts like these. The BVI is a fortunate place. There are scholarship programs, easily accessible jobs, everyone once they put their mind to it can accomplish something great with their life.
Have we as a people, forgotten to look after our people? Can we parent and not be friends with our kids and teenagers. This had to start somewhere along the lines of their youth or early adulthood… tell your children no, no to picking bad friends, in fact monitor your children's friends. Your child should not be able to pick up any and everybody as firned. Know your childs friends' parents. Who are they? What do they do? Enroll your child and teenagers into prgrams that develop them and set them up for a path of success. Pick tour children up on time and speak with their teachers. Stop allowing your children to do as they please.
We have to do better as a people. Raise your kids right. It may seem as if im putting the blame on the parents but someone has to raise these kids to become prductive citizens. Once we allow them to riase themselves or relax our parenting ways we allow them to do pick up and nuture bad habits.
Friends, look out for your firends. Ig you see them doing something bad, call them out on it. Be the 'boring friend' and dont allow them to destroy their life and lives of the innocent.
War has been enacted on the joint, dime bag and hillside patch, and to many a waste of tax money.
A real war with emphasis on gun interdiction and confiscation with life sentences should be the new norm, period.
After all, weed do not kill, guns in the hands of ignorant and evil minds do.
RVPF needs to get out of the weed patch and into the gun crates.
Get caught with a gun, go to jail for life. Get caught smuggling firearms, enact the death penalty.
Search and seizure laws with teeth and big bite are required right now.
A state of emergency must be declared giving authority to full entrance and search capability of any and all homes, cars, bikes, yachts boats and planes.
Bring the war to the peddlers, smugglers and dealers of weapons of war, death and family destruction.
The hell with curfew. Wake them out of bed when they least expect search every hole in and out of house, car, motor bike, air plane and boat.
Touch no non sense action will yield results and change the culture permanently.
If we do not accept it, take actions that will ensure we never will again.
May her beautiful soul rest in peace. And in time may their familes find comfort in this un-necessary lost.
Dry snitching occurs when we know sh*t and right now we dont know sh*t... school children ain saying nothing
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RIP unc Frank
I see some of the animals that roam the zoo that is Tortola and I muse to myself not even your mother could love you. There in lies the problem. There is no love in this society. People who love themselves find it really easy to love others. Love is a protective barrier to the ills and sins of a society.
Please do not allow Trinity's horrifying murder be for naught. BVI please do something!