Here is a chronological log of the homicides recorded in 2010, with statistics broken down by island. The Source does not include suicides or vehicular homicides in its listing.

(1) STX
(1) Territory
Date of death: Jan. 4

The body of 20-year-old Akeem Lee was discovered at approximately 3 a.m. Monday under the balcony of the Food Stamp office in Frederiksted. The victim was a resident of Estate Concordia.

(2) STX

(2) Territory

Date of death: Jan. 6,

Shamir James, 22 of Atlanta, Ga. was killed and another man was wounded in an early morning shooting at Chris' Hideaway in Christiansted. At about 12:56 a.m. Wednesday, 911 received reports of shots fired at Chris’ Hideaway in Christiansted, according to the police. While officers were at the scene investigating they received word that two victims were at Gov. Juan F. Luis Hospital being treated for wounds.  

(1) STT

(3) Territory

Date of death: Jan. 16

30-year-old Elliot Hodge Jr. Hodge was shot and killed at about 7:37 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, near the pump house Building 7, Kerwin Terrace Housing Community.

(3) STX

(4) Territory

Date of deah: Jan. 17

31-year-old Reynaldo Marin was found dead in his apartment at the Candido Guadelupe Housing Community with at least one knife wound to the right side of his stomach following a reported domestic violence incident. Police arrested Marin’s companion, 45-year-old Carmen O’Neill, and charged her with the homicide domestic violence.
 

(2) STT

(5) Territory

Date of Death: Jan. 24

Police on St. Thomas were dispatched to the scene of an auto accident at around 11:22 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24, on Silke Gade in Estate Savan. Arriving on the scene, they observed the driver of the vehicle involved had been shot at least once to his upper body. Emergency Medical Technicians on the scene could not detect any vital signs on the victim.  The victim’s name is being is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. According to the initial report, a green Mazda Protégé driven by the victim was traveling east on Silke Gade when the driver was apparently shot. He lost control of the car, which collided into two parked vehicles. The parked vehicles received damages on the hoods, bumpers and fenders. 

(3) STT

(6) Territory

Date of Death: Jan. 26.

Police on St. Thomas are investigating a homicide that occurred Tuesday, January 26 in Estate Tutu. The male victim, identified as 32-year-old Kareem George, died as a result of at least one gunshot to his body, police said. According to St. Thomas Deputy Chief Dwayne DeGraff, a firearm was found in close proximity to George’s body which was located in a residential yard. The weapon was turned over to Forensics for ballistics testing. The Medical Examiner will process the body to determine the circumstances of death.

(4, 5) STX

(7, 8) Territory

Date of deaths: Feb. 3

A 16-year-old and an adult male were shot to death in the Mutual Homes Housing Community on Wednesday. The victims were identified as 31-year-old Gary Gonsalves of Estate Grove Place and the male minor, who resided in Lorraine Village Apartments. Police were notified of shots fired minutes after 7 p.m. Wednesday. Officers arriving on the scene found the two victims with multiple gunshot wounds inside a red vehicle parked near Buildings 14 and 15.

(4, 5) STT

(9, 10) Territory

Date of deaths: Feb. 10

A man and woman were found shot to death in an apparent murder-suicide on St. Thomas Feb. 10, police reported. Leonardo Leonardo-Soto, 49, and 35-year-old Confesora Duarte were found dead after neighbors called 911 to report multiple shots fired in the vicinity of the former J. Antonio Jarvis Elementary School on Prindsens Gade. The neighbors then led police to a nearby home where the   victims were found in the kitchen, both having been shot at least once. A .38 caliber pistol was found at the scene, police said at the time.

(6) STT

(11) Territory

Date of death: Feb. 15

St. Thomas native Jibaro A. Nibbs, 31, died from multiple gunshots while sitting in the front seat of a white Acura Integra near the Hospital Ground basketball courts just after 4 p.m. Feb. 15.

(7) STT

(12) Territory

Date of Death: Feb. 17

A man was shot at about 4 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, near Simmonds Alley. He drove himself to the downtown fire station for help and was taken to the Roy L. Schneider  Medical Center, where he died shortly after 10 p.m. the same day. The victim's name was not released pending notification of the next of kin.

(8) STT

(13) Territory

Date of Death: Feb. 18

A woman was found shot to death at an apartment at the Oswald Harris Court housing community. Police were responding to a call of shots fired at 8:49 a.m. when they discovered the body. Emergency Medical Technicians on the scene verified she had no vital signs. A “person of interest” was detained and is being interviewed by detectives, according to the V.I. Police Department.

(6) STX

(14) Territory

Date of death: Feb. 18

Orlando Clarke, 20, of Estate Williams Delight, was shot and killed in the vicinity of the Prosperity gas station near Frederiksted. Police responded to a report of shots in the area at 8:22 p.m. and found Clarke behind the station. An ambulance crew dispatched to the scene found no signs of life.

(7) STX

(15) Territory

Date of death: Feb. 27

At about 11:40 p.m. Saturday police were dispatched to a call of shots fired in the Marley Homes in Frederiksted. A male victim, later identified as 43-year-old Hernan Santos Jr. of Estate Williams Delight, died while being treated at the hospital for at least one gunshot wound to the left side of his stomach.
 

(8)  STX

(16) Territory

Date of death: Feb. 28

 At about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, police received another report of shots fired in Christiansted. According to the preliminary investigation a scuffle had broken broke out at Club 54 on Company Street. Shortly after, shots were fired in the area of Queen Cross and Company Street. A male victim, later identified as 20-year-old Javier Rivera of Estate Profit, was apparently struck by gunfire while driving his vehicle away from the area. As a result of those injuries Rivera crashed his vehicle into a building a few blocks away on Company Street. Emergency medical technicians on the scene found no signs of life on the victim.
 

(9) STX

(17) Territory

Date of death: March 4

Vincent "Sensi" Johnson of Frederiksted was shot and killed Thursday evening, the second homicide victim in less than a week near the Marley Homes. Johnson died of at least one gunshot wound to the upper body. Several residents told police they heard a single gunshot between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Thursday. No one reported gunfire to the police at the time.

(9) STT

(18) Territory

Date of death: March 6

26-year-old St. Thomas resident Kevin James was slain at about 4:15 a.m. Saturday, gunned down in a vehicle while driving near the basketball court in Hospital Ground. According to the VIPD, James and unidentified others were riding in the car after leaving the Jaguars nightclub when “someone opened fire on the vehicle they were in while it was southeast of the basketball court.” Before police arrived, James was rushed in a private vehicle to Schneider Medical Center where he later died.