A 20-year-old man was killed following a shooting in the Bordeaux area of St. John on Tuesday, November 10, marking the island's first homicide of 2026 and bringing the U.S. Virgin Islands' territory-wide homicide count to 47, according to Virgin Islands Consortium tracking. Photo: USVI Consortium

The deceased was identified by next of kin as Kerwan Warrington, according to the V.I. Police Department. His death brings the year's homicide count to 28 on St. Croix, 18 on St. Thomas and one on St. John.

According to the VIPD, the 911 Emergency Call Centre received a report of a shooting in the Bordeaux area at approximately 11:41 a.m. Tuesday. Dispatchers were also informed that a male victim had been transported by private vehicle to the Myra Keating Clinic for medical treatment.

Shortly afterwards, emergency dispatchers received additional information that a second male victim was also being transported to the clinic in a private vehicle with injuries that had not yet been determined.

That victim was subsequently transferred to the Schneider Regional Medical Centre on St. Thomas, where medical personnel performed lifesaving measures. Despite those efforts, he succumbed to his injuries.

Police subsequently identified the deceased as Warrington. The department has not disclosed the condition of the other man involved in the incident or provided details about the circumstances surrounding the shooting.

The killing ends a period in which St. John had recorded no homicides during 2026, even as deadly gun violence continued on St. Croix and St. Thomas.

The territory's previous homicide count stood at 46 following the October 31 killing of 31-year-old Torae Sanders, who was shot in the driveway of her Estate Rattan home on St. Croix. Her death followed the fatal shooting of 39-year-old Evan Haynes Jr. on St. Thomas earlier that same day.

The VIPD's Criminal Investigation Bureau is investigating Tuesday's shooting. Police have not publicly identified a suspect or disclosed a possible motive.