Reports of gunshots heard in area of Ellis Thomas Downs
It was last night Monday February 26, 2018 around 10:52 P.M. that many residents claimed they heard gunshots fired in the area of Sea Cows Bay, around Ellis Thomas Downs, the famous horse racing facility on Tortola.
Three residents confirmed to our newsroom they heard the shots.
However, senior sources of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force told our newsroom that they also got the report from an “anonymous” caller, but they checked and found nothing.
Around the same time last night, police officers were in the area doing strategic “stop and search”, according to the same senior police source.
Guns, crime & deaths in February
There was a wave of shootings and reported shootings this month on the main island, Tortola. The shootings began on February 6, 2018 when a male was shot near the Alexandrina Maduro Primary School in Baughers Bay.
Then on Saturday February 10, 2018, 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.
On February 16, 2018, a young man was shot while in the area of Horsepath, Tortola, and had to be hospitalised. The following night, February 17, 2018, shots were reportedly fired in the same area, Horsepath, but no one was injured.
On February 18, shots were heard in the area of Baughers Bay; however, police came up empty handed when they responded to the reports.
And then on Tuesday February 20, 2018 a residential house located in the Manchester Estate area, on the main island of Tortola, was the target of gunfire. No one was injured.
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