{"id":60,"date":"2008-10-29T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/2-charged-in-death-of-virgin-islands-law-clerk.html"},"modified":"2008-10-29T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T22:54:00","slug":"2-charged-in-death-of-virgin-islands-law-clerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/2-charged-in-death-of-virgin-islands-law-clerk.html","title":{"rendered":"2 charged in death of Virgin Islands law clerk"},"content":{"rendered":"Date: 10\/29\/2008 5:23 PM<br \/><br \/>By JUDI SHIMEL<br \/>Associated Press Writer<br \/><br \/><br \/>CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) _ A missing lawyer who had recently moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands and became a judge&#8217;s clerk was found slain Wednesday along a dirt path in St. Thomas following an apparent robbery. Two people were charged in his death.<br \/><br \/>Authorities recovered the body of Gabriel Lerner, a clerk for a Superior Court judge in the U.S. island territory, in the rural western part of the island, a day after he was reported missing and four days after he was last seen, Police Commissioner James McCall said.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;We accomplished a lot in a short period of time,&#8221; McCall told reporters. &#8220;Unfortunately, it didn&#8217;t end the way we wanted it to.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>The police spotted Lerner&#8217;s car Tuesday afternoon and started a chase that ended when the car crashed into a police cruiser. The suspects fled into the nearby forest but were captured two hours later by Superior Court marshals, police said.<br \/><br \/>The two suspects \u2014 Devon Frett, 22, and a 17-year-old whose name was not released \u2014 were being held on charges that included murder, robbery and kidnapping. They were held without bail.<br \/><br \/>Lerner, 27, a native of the Milwaukee area, was working as a clerk for Superior Court Judge Brenda Hollar. He was last seen alive on Saturday.<br \/><br \/>Family members said Lerner, a Georgetown University Law School graduate, moved to the St. Thomas in January to take a job with a law firm before becoming a clerk and was sworn into the territory&#8217;s bar last week.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;He was offered a job down there &#8230; and thought how can you pass up an opportunity to work down in paradise, instead of cold Wisconsin,&#8221; said his sister, Arielle Lerner of Milwaukee. &#8220;We were all very jealous.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>The family planned to bury him in St. Thomas, she said.<br \/><br \/>_______<br \/><br \/>Associated Press writer Carrie Antlfinger contributed to this report from Milwaukee.<br \/><br \/>Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 10\/29\/2008 5:23 PMBy JUDI SHIMELAssociated Press WriterCHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) _ A missing lawyer who had recently moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands and became a judge&#8217;s clerk was found slain Wednesday along a dirt path in St. Thomas following an apparent robbery. Two people were charged in his death.Authorities recovered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[265,263,264,266,267,262,268,49,3],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-armed-robbery","tag-baby-deaths","tag-fatalities","tag-gabriel-lerner","tag-milwaukee-news","tag-st-thomas-murder","tag-virgin-islands-murder","tag-wisconsin-homocide","tag-wisconsin-lawyer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}