St. Croix Man Sentenced for Shooting a Woman and Her Daughter

St. Croix, VI – Acting United States Attorney Adam F. Sleeper announced today that on July 2,
2025, Miguel A. Marrero, 53, was sentenced by Senior District Judge Wilma A. Lewis on two
federal and two territorial charges. On the federal charges, Judge Lewis sentenced Marrero to 15
years’ imprisonment for discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence (Count
One) and 30 months’ imprisonment for possessing a firearm as a felon (Count Two). On the
territorial charges, Judge Lewis sentenced Marrero to 12.5 months’ imprisonment for assault first
degree (Count Five), and four years’ imprisonment for assault third degree (Count Eight). The
federal charges are to be served consecutively to each other and consecutive to the territorial
charges. The territorial charges are to be served concurrently. Judge Lewis also sentenced Marrero
to five years of supervised release.
According to Court documents, on July 4, 2024, at the Candido Guadalupe Terrace housing
community on St. Croix, Marrero’s minor son and a female minor got into a physical altercation.
The female minor’s mother observed the physical altercation, came running towards it, and then
confronted Marrero. They had a verbal altercation, and after the mother allegedly struck Marrero
in the face, Marrero pulled out a gun and shot her in the back. The female minor then fled, but was
shot twice by Marrero while running away, in the leg and ankle. Marrero then fled the scene. As a
result of her injuries, the mother was airlifted off island for medical treatment. Marrero was a
convicted felon, who had been convicted of a firearm charge in the District Court of the Virgin
Islands on June 7, 2000.
The case was investigated by the Virgin Islands Police Department and Homeland Security
Investigations. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Rhonda Williams-
Henry.