Police were hunting Taheem S. Jarvis Tuesday in connection with a homicide, issuing a wanted poster for Jarvis as a “person of interest” in an unspecified slaying.
Virgin Islands Police Department officials would not confirm which homicide the Black, 23-year-old man was wanted in connection with. Jarvis, who was arrested on gun charges in both St. Thomas and St. Croix in 2023, is described as a slim 5-feet, 10 inches tall and 180 pounds.
Police urged anyone who sees Jarvis to call 911 or the Major Crimes Unit at 340-774-2211 Ext. 5553 or the Office of the Chief of Police immediately.
The territory has seen a wave of violence in the last month, with nine people killed since Oct. 7.
On Sunday, a 17-year-old applied mathematics student at the University of the Virgin Islands, Kareem L. Pinney, was seemingly randomly gunned down outside the Grandview Apartments housing community on St. Thomas.
Jarvis was one of four men and a woman arrested April 30, 2023, after allegedly being found in a car laden with illegal firearms and ammunition on the Limetree Beach Roadway along Frenchman’s Bay. Jarvis was charged with possession of a ghost gun, possession of a firearm within 1,000 feet of a school, possession of ammunition, unlicensed possession of a firearm.
Jarvis was charged again in October 2023 with unlawful possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, discharging or aiming a firearm, reckless endangerment, and possession of ammunition after he allegedly shot at someone near the Kennedy Housing Community on St. Croix. He was arrested a month later.
