Fountain Valley massacre | |
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Location | Fountain Valley Golf Course, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands |
Coordinates | 17°44′31″N 64°48′52″W / 17.74194°N 64.81444°W |
Date | 6 September 1972 |
Attack type | Mass shooting, robbery |
Weapons | Firearms |
Deaths | 8 |
Injured | 8 |
Perpetrators | Ishmael LaBeet, Beaumont Gereau, Meral Smith, Warren Ballentine, and Raphael Joseph |
The Fountain Valley massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on the afternoon of 6 September 1972 at the Fountain Valley Golf Course in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.[1] The incident left eight resort employees and tourists dead. Another eight were either shot at or wounded.