THE VIRGIN ISLANDS POLICE DEPARTMENT 
                                     “To Protect and Serve” 
       Office of the Commissioner 
 
 
AAF Justice Complex, 5400 Veterans Drive St. Thomas, 00802 * (340) 774-2211 
Administrative Services Building 45 Mars Hill, Frederiksted St. Croix, 00840 * (340) 778-2211 
 
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VIPD NEWS RELEASE (UPDATE) - 061323-190 
For Immediate Media Distribution 
 
June 13, 2023  
 
Update: Unresponsive Teen Succumbed to Gun Shot Injury on St. Thomas 
 
St. Thomas, VI – On Friday, June 6, 2023, a citizen contacted 911 and reported that a male 
was shot inside the Gottlieb Quickway Service Center. 
 
Responding officers arrived at the scene and observed a black, unresponsive male. 
Emergency Medical Technicians also arrived on the scene and checked the male for vital 
signs, and at 9:50 p.m. concluded that the male did not have any signs of life.  
 
The unresponsive male was positively identified by next of kin as 16-year-old Leroy 
Cornelius, Jr. 
 
Preliminary investigation revealed that on June 6, 2023, two males got into a heated verbal 
altercation in Gottlieb Quickway Service Station. Cornelius, who accompanied one of the 
males, brandished a firearm during the altercation, and was subsequently shot by a male who 
was also inside the establishment.  
 
Anyone having any information about this incident please contact the Virgin Islands Police 
Department at (340)774-2211, the Criminal Investigation Unit’s Major Crimes Division at 
(340)642-8449 or Crime Stoppers V.I. at 1(800)222-8477. 
 
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