Officers of the Major Incident Team of the RVIPF, today charged one male in relation to last December’s murder of Kadeem Jimenez and charged another for firearm, ammunition, and drug offences.

Nyall George, 26, of Old Plantation was charged with conspiracy to murder Jimenez while both George and John Burgos, 24, of St. Croix, USVI were charged with unlawful possession of firearms, unlawful possession of ammunition and unlawful possession of a controlled drug.

A search warrant conducted on George’s Hodges Creek residence uncovered three illegal handguns, a large quantity of ammunition and a quantity of illegal drugs. Both men were arrested at Hodges Creek. The two men will appear in Magistrate’s Court at the next available sitting.

Kadeem Jimenez was fatally wounded in the early afternoon of December 12 after shots were fired in Major Bay, East End. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Territory has experienced an escalation in major gun crime over the past few months with two murders, and one attempted murder already registered for 2023.