WTJX NEWSFEED: July 8, 2024

By Isabelle Teare

Published July 8, 2024 at 5:39 PM AST

Photo description: Emergency vehicles gather at Brewers Bay on St. Thomas.

On today’s WTJX Radio NewsFeed, a man has been shot and killed at Brewers Bay on St. Thomas, marking the territory’s 16^thhomicide of the year. A judge has doubled the initial bail amount for the man who admitted to shooting a mother and her minor daughter at the Candido Guadeloupe Terrace housing community on St. Croix. French Heritage Week kicks off throughout the territory. And the third annual emancipation art exhibition on St. Croix celebrates “Blackfullness.” Listen to these stories and more.

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Isabelle Teare

Isabelle Teare is a new member of the WTJX team. She is a recent graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she specialized in radio broadcast and audio storytelling. Raised on the island of St. Thomas since the age of seven, Isabelle attended and graduated from Antilles School before moving to Washington, D.C. where she earned her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in Justice and Peace Studies. Originally planning on pursuing a career in the law, Isabelle worked as a paralegal on St. Thomas for several years before making the decision to pursue her passion for storytelling.

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