On Saturday, police were investigating a St. Croix bar shooting that left a man dead shortly before midnight Friday, and arrested a man accused of attacking a motorist with a hammer.
Virgin Islands Police Department officers responded to a shooting at the Bienvenidos Bar in Estate Profit at 11:53 p.m. Friday. They found a man lying face down in the establishment with no vital signs. The deceased was later identified by a family member as 49-year-old Hoedelair Germaine. His death marks the 10th homicide of 2025 on St. Croix, and the 23rd for the territory, according to the Source Homicide List.*
In an unrelated incident, earlier Friday, police arrested Michael Boyce for allegedly attacking a Christiansted motorist with a hammer.
On Oct. 4, doctors at Juan F. Luis Hospital treated a woman for multiple wounds. She told police she was in her car chatting with friends on Company Street when a man approached and began to argue with the group. He allegedly struck the woman with a hammer several times, hitting her head and other parts of her body, police said.
Friends were able to chase away the man identified as Boyce, 38, while the injured woman lay on the ground, police said.
Boyce was charged with attempted murder. He was due in court Monday.
Boyce had been charged with weapons possession and assault charges in 2013. While in custody at Golden Grove, Boyce was arrested again and charged with hiding a makeshift knife in his mattress. He pleaded guilty to the shank in 2015 after launching an unsuccessful appeal to the original charges.
*The Source Homicide List is a chronological log of the homicides recorded in 2025 in the U.S. Virgin Islands, as reported by the VIPD. Cases are broken down by island. While this listing is based on VIPD reports, the Source does not include suicides or vehicular homicides in its listing, which the police and some other media do. This can lead to a discrepancy in the number of incidents reported.
