A YEAR IN THE MAKING: HEYWOOD HANDCUFFED FOR 2025 FISH MARKET FRACAS

IN CUSTODY: Donnie Heywood, 19, turned himself in to VIPD authorities on Thursday to face multiple felony charges stemming from a 2025 shooting at the Frederiksted Fish Market. (PHOTO: VIPD)

FISH MARKET FOLLY: $100K Bail For F’sted ‘Run-and-Gun’ Suspect

FREDERIKSTED — A year after lead flew near the Frederiksted Fish Market, the bill has finally come due for 19-year-old Donnie Heywood.

Heywood walked into the Wilbur Francis Command Police Station on Thursday to turn himself in, ending a high-stakes search that began when 911 dispatchers reported a chaotic afternoon of gunfire on March 2, 2025. That "run-and-gun" incident left a trail of spent casings and three wounded victims in its wake—two found bleeding at the scene and a third who scrambled to the hospital in a private vehicle.

Detectives from the Criminal Investigation Bureau spent over twelve months sifting through evidence before a Superior Court Judge finally inked an arrest warrant on March 1, 2026.

Heywood now faces a daunting laundry list of felony charges:

⦿ Attempted Murder

⦿ First-Degree Reckless Endangerment

⦿ Carrying a Firearm During a Crime of Violence

⦿ Possession of Ammunition

⦿ First and Third-Degree Assault

Bail is set at a cool $100,000.00. For now, Heywood has traded the Frederiksted streets for a cell at the John Bell Correctional Facility, where he awaits his Advice of Rights hearing.