White Man Tells Interracial Couple to Get Off Water Island or Face Death. Faces 75 yrs in prison.

WHITE MAN TELLS INTERRACIAL COUPLE TO GET OFF WATER ISLAND OR FACE DEATH. HE IS NOW FACING 75 YEARS IN PRISON.


ST. THOMAS, USVI — A Caucasian man is facing 75 years in prison under local hate crime laws after threatening bodily and property harm to an interracial couple living on Water Island, Attorney General Claude Walker made known during a brief press conference in St. Thomas Friday afternoon. Mr. Walker denounced the behavior and said the V.I. Department of Justice (D.O.J.) would move forward with criminal charges against the defendant, identified as Christopher Rice, seen above, after a Superior Court judge found that there was enough probable cause for criminal charges.

According to the case’s affidavit, which was filed by Special Agent Sehkera Tyson, who is an assistant director at D.O.J.’s Bureau of Investigation, the victims, a Black male and his Caucasian wife, had left their home on Water Island following Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and returned to the island on June 5.

But on June 8 at approximately 12:00 noon, the wife received a text message on her cellphone with threatening and derogatory words, including a demand for the wife to “tell her f*&king #$@hole husband to get the f*$# off of Water Island.” The text message also warned the wife that there was a contract out to kill her husband, and that she needed to advise him to leave or else he would be shot.

Also included in the text was the N-word, the racial slur directed at Black people.

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