POLICE TROT OUT ST. THOMAS MAN ACCUSED IN HOME DEPOT SHOOTING DEATH: VIPD

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Police today announced an arrest in the fatal shooting of a woman in the parking lot of Home Depot in St. Thomas on Saturday afternoon. Justin A. Matthews, 23, of Contant, was arrested on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. and charged with first-degree murder, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.

Police said Matthews was the lone gunman in the shooting death of 20-year-old Keoner Baron in the parking lot of Home Depot in Estate Donoe on September 4.

In life, The victim Baron complained repeatedly to police that she was being stalked and harassed by Matthews after he was involved in an altercation with the dead woman’s boyfriend.

Despite numerous VIPD reports filed by Baron dating back to 2019, police were apparently powerless to prevent her murder at Home Depot on Saturday.