Hail of bullets fired @ Manchester home last night
It is believed several shots were fired at the house that was allegedly occupied at the time; however, no one was injured.
Moments later police officers went to the scene of the shooting and found several spent shells at the home.
The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF), through its Information Officer Diane L. Drayton, confirmed the incident.
"Police are investigating a shooting incident in the Belle Vue/Manchester area last night where a home appeared to have been targeted. No one was injured in that incident. No further details can be released at this time," Ms Drayton stated in a press release today, February 21, 2018.
We will being you more details as they become available.
Gunshots ringing out in the nights have been a frequent occurence lately, with reports coming in almost every night.
At least two persons have been injured and two killed in shootings over the past two weeks.
It was on Saturday February 10, 2018 that two Virgin Islanders, 24 year old Clevaughn Sweeney and 26 year old Michael Stevens, were shot to death in the area of the Althea Scatliffe Primary School.
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Come on even the first 2 pages of google has one reference to this place.....this article!!
Manchester has been a formal community name in the BVI well before my great grandmother and she would have been 120 plus years old this year. She wasn't from that specific area, but near by in the East Central side. She had relatives by blood and marriage from Mays through End East. When I was very young it was a community rich in tradition and history. I was too young to help, but I tagged along as everyone from hope hill, belle vue, manchester to Long trench took turns helping each family plow and reap provisions from their farms. The women would meet up at each others home and cook the meals early in the morning and by noon go out to the "ground" to serve the men their meal. They did the same for weddings in the community. It was an awesome time that taught me love of family community and respect for the soil, sea and animals. By the way Manchester and belle vue are not one in the same. There is a point where each starts and ends. Dont be like the expat realtors who have been trying to rename parts of that area. That part of the district also consists of butu and Cooten Bay (and yes people do live in cooten bay and have been there for years). Beautiful areas that use to be scuffed at in the early years because only Road Town was cool to live in back in the day...the rest of us who lived in the hill sides were looked down as Hill Billies and isolated from town except to get small amount of groceries and attend Methodist church in town. A side note...as children our elders shared stories of snow and hail (blocks of ice) falling in Manchester when they were out there helping the families there reap ground provisions from the soil.
The article clearly states where Manchester is....