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UPDATE: Gunshot wound was self-inflicted in RT shooting - sources allege

December 17th, 2013 | Tags: shooting peebles hospital ICU RVIPF
Sources have indicated that the wound received by the man who was shot several days ago and rushed to the Peebles Hospital was self-inflicted. Photo: VINO/File
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Sources have indicated that the wound received by the man who was shot several days ago and rushed to the Peebles Hospital was self-inflicted.

The determination was reportedly made following a medical practitioner’s examination of the marks on his skin and also on the basis of the entry and exit wounds on the victim’s thigh.

The shooting victim is reportedly a resident of the East End/Long Look area of Tortola. The exact nature of his current condition remains unclear but reports indicate that he is stable after being rushed to the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital several days ago.

Although the wound was said to be self-inflicted, sources indicated that no weapon has since been recovered following the incident which reportedly occurred in the vicinity of the LIME building in Road Town on Friday, December 13, 2013.

According to Police Information Officer Ms Diane Drayton, Police are investigating an alleged assault where a man received a gunshot wound to the thigh Friday evening in the Crabbe Lot area. "Police are still to ascertain how the wounding came about," Ms Drayton told Virgin Islands News Online on December 15, 2013.

See previous story posted December 14, 2013:

One person in ICU following alleged shooting in RT

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Information reaching Virgin Islands News Online is that one person is now in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Peebles Hospital following an alleged shooting incident last evening, December 13, 2013.

Details surrounding the incident are sketchy but reports indicate that the shooting may have been accidental and occurred in the vicinity of the 'LIME building' in Road Town.

It was reported that the victim was unresponsive upon arrival at Peebles Hospital and his current condition is unclear.

It is unknown how many persons may have been involved in the incident and efforts made to confirm the reports with spokesperson for the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) were unsuccessful up to post time as Police Information Officer Diane Drayton did not respond to our queries.

Virgin Islands News Online will provide further details as they become available.

32 Responses to “UPDATE: Gunshot wound was self-inflicted in RT shooting - sources allege”

  • again (14/12/2013, 23:48) Like (0) Dislike (3) Reply
    oh no!
  • jj (14/12/2013, 23:49) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    Hope the young man will be ok
  • DON Q (15/12/2013, 00:29) Like (10) Dislike (32) Reply
    Where is the ndp crime bill? Ndp must go
    • Sick (15/12/2013, 07:21) Like (44) Dislike (4) Reply
      EVERYTHING BAD HAPPEN IN THE BVI IS ALWAYS SOME PARTY GAH GO WHY YOU DONT GET AN EDUCATION AND RUN FOR POLITICS THEN JEEEEZZZZZZZ I SICK A HEARING IT EVERYDAY AND WHEN VIP GET IN AND SOMN HAPPEN VIP MUST GO GROW UP
      • cnn (15/12/2013, 12:32) Like (4) Dislike (11) Reply
        It's called free speech sick
      • @ Sick (15/12/2013, 14:46) Like (0) Dislike (3) Reply
        Keep at it ndp bloggers one day after next elections you will fool us again
      • so right (16/12/2013, 13:08) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
        sick I'm so glad that im not the only one feel this way... there does sound so stupid bout party this n government that like the government tell them rob or kill or rape..... if u cant from a good opinion don't form none at all
    • TO DON Q (15/12/2013, 10:13) Like (4) Dislike (2) Reply
      Why you all STILL talking about NDP a failed government... boss we the people just waiting until the next elections
    • cocern (15/12/2013, 17:30) Like (11) Dislike (0) Reply
      This is a LIFE we concern! Can a political party give the gift of a LIFE? Be more THOUGHTFUL of someone else FEELING and not put DUMB politics in EVERYTHING. Do we PRAY to NDP or VIP or any party for that matter? I PRAY TO THE ALMIGHTY GOD FOR SPEEDY RECOVERY TO THE VICTIM and PEACE and STRENGTH to the family!!!
  • facet over fiction (15/12/2013, 01:09) Like (21) Dislike (4) Reply
    How come it can be accidental when guns are illegal?
    • Guest (15/12/2013, 11:57) Like (5) Dislike (1) Reply
      Accidental means with the shooter did not intend to shoot the individual. We all know guns are illegal. They are not saying it is not a crime.
    • mAN uP (15/12/2013, 12:22) Like (0) Dislike (2) Reply
      that is the same thing i hear thinking, Accidental??? was the young man a police officer?
    • fool (16/12/2013, 08:13) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
      guns are not illegal, it only becomes illegal if you do not have a license to keep or carry the said gun, remember that.
  • school children (15/12/2013, 07:29) Like (10) Dislike (0) Reply
    dem school children say the man shoot him self by mistake then claimed he got jumped --
  • Really (15/12/2013, 08:21) Like (3) Dislike (4) Reply
    How could it be accidental,when guns are illegal and why are they walking around with it anyway,it not the panderosa,or big valley,it is Tortola British Virgin Islands.
  • accidental (15/12/2013, 09:17) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    Some 1 crismus spoil...bout u hav gun...bullets dont turn back...now u kj9w how ajot feel...stop playing fool
  • asura (15/12/2013, 10:14) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    too much guns too much crime
  • wise up (15/12/2013, 13:01) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    whatever happen to the cameras the police have in town; the big talk they will stop crime(what a joke)....tortola is now a gun town !!!!..all the big airport and seaport we rushing to build and we do not get crime under control who will come to the bvi...whatever happens in bvi is now on the world-wide-web....my people gun crime is no joking-matter and do not hear from the 13-members of the house on crime matters at all...God be with "us"
    • @ Wise Up (15/12/2013, 18:32) Like (0) Dislike (4) Reply
      another gimmik by the uk police officers for cameras
      • ex pat (16/12/2013, 08:57) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
        So you dont want extra security. The UK Officers are leaving. You will soon be able to sort your own mess out.
        • wise up (18/12/2013, 05:46) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
          hello ex pat; let the uk officers go back to the uk and solve their own unsolved-crimes...how many crimes have been solved by them as of 2013....i know we can see them in bars drinking west indian run, on the beach enjoying our climate....stop talking such fu@$ because the crime rate in the bvi is up while under the professional watch of the uk police....i dont know where you coming from but the BVI i know never had uk police but the crime rate was low....my question to you smart-ass(how many crimes were solved under the uk police.....london have unsolved crime, these same officers could not or can not get them solved so you are very stupid to think these uk police will be the answer to bvi crime solving......are you white??????
  • she the cat mother (15/12/2013, 19:20) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    Sickening, that's the only reaction on how easy guns are to have in the bvi
  • when (16/12/2013, 07:41) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    Vino when we going get the name of the gun man?
    • wise up (17/12/2013, 06:56) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      to when; what "gun man" the fool shot "himself" BUT out on the streets "playing" rude-boy!!!!
  • Say What ? (16/12/2013, 10:14) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
    He shoot himself ? This the dude that was in the movie 8 mile ????
  • up town (16/12/2013, 21:36) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    hope by now he is responsive
  • Hmm (17/12/2013, 00:14) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply

    Popo shot he by accident?

  • right one (17/12/2013, 08:15) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply

    He allegedly shoot he-self. He allegedly shoot the right person. He aint had no call with it.

  • Gundy (19/12/2013, 11:20) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    @wise up.......
    That part of the ghetto has no cameras, tis the parking lot that joins with LIME parking lot, behind of Franklyins......and this will not be the only incident to happen back there, since that's where they hide now because of the cameras in the front.......


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