St. Thomas police have charged two men in connection with the June 9 murder of a Dominica man near the Blue Corner Bar in Estate Contant.
Major Crime detectives charged Emmanuel Alexander, 34, and Friten Steven, 32, with first-degree murder and illegal weapons possession.
Alexander, a native of Dominica, resides at the Clearview Apartments. Steven is a Contant resident. Each man was placed on $300,000 bail following an advice-of-rights hearing this week before Territorial Court Judge Audrey Thomas-Francis.
Police allege that Alexander and Steven shot Aaron Stedman to death on the night of June 9. Stedman was found dead in the gutter near the bar about an hour after residents told police they heard gunshots in the area. To date, police have not commented on the motive for the shooting or whether the murder weapon has been recovered.
In other police news, Deputy Police Chief Theodore Carty said police are investigating an assault Wednesday in which John Lindquist Jr. suffered an injury to his head and several lacerations to his body.
He "was found by a citizen near the gutter in Contant in a battered condition," Carty said Thursday. Lindquist has reportedly told police that he was arguing with an unidentified persons and "only remembers waking up in the hospital."
Carty also reported the arrest of two 14-year-old minors after they were positively identified as suspects in a strong-arm robbery. The minors were accused "of physically manhandling Gonzalo Calo at #112 Mahogany Estate." Carty said the two took an undetermined amount of money from the victim before pushing him to the ground.
The two minors were apprehended by VIPD Special Operations Bureau officers as they fled the area. They were released to their parents after being charged with robbery.
Also under investigation is the Thursday morning gunpoint robbery of a London man and two of his friends on the Smith Bay road shortly before 3 a.m.
Carty said Jeremy Clarke, 25, and two friends were held up as they drove on the roadway a short distance from the Toad and Tart pub. The suspects walked up to the vehicle, pointed a gun at the men and took one of their wallets. When one of the suspects fumbled and dropped the wallet, Clarke told police he drove off. Several shots were fired at the victim's vehicle.
Carty said about $100 in cash and credit cards were stolen.
