AG: DIAMOND MAN HEARS CHARGES AGAINST HIM FOR 2019 SHOOTING THAT LEFT 4 VICTIMS INJURED

KINGSHILL — Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George laid out the formal criminal charges against 29-year-old Mario Magras who appeared in Superior Court for an advice-of-rights hearing today.

The office of the Attorney General filed a ten-count Information against Magras including first-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault, mayhem, unauthorized possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, discharging or aiming firearms, first-degree reckless endangerment, and unauthorized possession of ammunition.

Magras was advised of his rights today in the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands on St. Croix, at which time the Court found probable cause for the arrest. The court set his bail $100,000.00 with permission to post 10 percent and ordered an unmonitored 24-hour house arrest, except for work.

According to an affidavit, police officers were dispatched to a discharging of shots in the David Hamilton Jackson Terrace Housing Community on September 6, 2019. Four victims sustained gunshot wounds to their bodies which they sought medical attention.