Man arrested & released in Jefferson Joseph's murder
Mr Joseph, 41, was gunned down on the morning of April 16, 2017 after leaving a night club in the area of CSY Dock located in Baughers Bay, on the main island of Tortola.
After being questioned today, the man was released without charges by detectives and is no longer a suspect in the crime, according to the same police sources.
Police appeal to public for info
Meanwhile, the RVIPF Major Crime Team is asking the public for information that could help in the murder investigation of Mr Joseph of Mountain Valley, Huntums Ghut.
According to a police press release today, April 18, 2017 initial inquiries suggest that on Sunday Morning just before 4:00 AM, Joseph and a female companion had left a nightclub close to the CSY Dock and was about to leave in his vehicle when shots were fired. Joseph was pronounced dead at the scene. His female companion was treated at hospital and discharged.
Police further said a crane service was sought to lift Mr Joseph’s vehicle which had gone over a road barrier following the shooting incident.
Persons with information can contact the Major Crime Team directly at 368-5682 or the RVIPF Intelligence Unit at 368-9339.
4th homicide in VI for 2017
Mr Joseph’s gruesome shooting death during the early morning hours of April 16, 2017 brings to four the number of persons killed on Tortola this year. It was on January 6, 2017 that businessman Frankly J. Fahie was murdered by a lone gunman in Long Look.
On the morning of March 10, 2017 Alston E. Penn was beaten to death allegedly with rocks in the Windy Hill area of Tortola.
On March 10, 2017 Ashburn A. Dawson aka ‘Ashy’ of Carrot Bay on Tortola was gunned down close to the Sunday Morning Well.
Police have made one arrest in the murder of Mr Penn.
There remain over twenty five unsolved murders in the British Overseas Territory of less than forty thousand people.
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42 Responses to “Man arrested & released in Jefferson Joseph's murder”
information is shared with the police(that's a fact)..we need a good K-9 unit those dogs can be very helpful: homes of suspects are being searched but evidence already gone: the local police remains the best persons to deal with criminal matters in the BVI; the powers to be brougt in the old retired police(where are the results after the many years): lets face the facts some of our young people have chosen a life of crime and that patch can be very distructive: most of the killings are targeted (organised hits)..
Many locals are not policing yes but is that any excuse for not performing your job as effectively as possible? When approaching many of these police officers they often have bad attitudes or act very nonchalant about a matter.
A few weeks ago there was a nationwide power outage and the public had to call and ask them to direct the traffic lights. There were two large cruise ships in that day.
Go ahead tell anyone of them that you saw someone in the ghetto using drugs or selling drugs and see if they don't laugh in your face.
The system is a joke... the police is a joke. Yet they have no problem coming on the news blogs blaming the public for everything as if they are blameless, they take no responsibility for their incompetency. A bunch of hypocrites!
If the governor clean the system up properly then the system can clean us 'the pubic' up properly. (Note: Governor please use some of that money to start a JROTC - Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Programme in the schools so that more of our local population can be introduced into the police force from a young age.)
We need justice for that also!
By the way some of the murder cases are already solved because those who are falling are those who committed murders also. The only thing is that police can't put the pieces of the puzzle together.
Are we so blinded by jealousy that we cannot see? Are we so trivial that as a people we reject our own? we are doomed along this path of distruction.I have never seen such hate among a people towards their own than this my people!! Opportunities sometimes do not come because of many circumstances beyond our control and there comes a time when YOU as an individual will have to go alone and become somebody. I wish we would just wise up and stand up for each other or destroy ourselves in the process just as we are doing.
Hire people who born (here) hire people who from here then the crime and all murder cases will get solve