The seventeenth named Name_conferral storm and ninth hurricane of the annual hurricane season , Rafael originated Coming_to_be from a tropical wave roughly 230 mi ( 370 km ) south-southeast of Saint Croix on October 12 ; because the system already contained Containing tropical storm-force winds , it skipped Self_motion tropical depression status .

On Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands , gusty winds downed Motion trees , which struck Attack power lines , leaving Departing minor electrical outages .

It later crossed Motion_directional over Guadeloupe , St. Croix and St. Thomas on September 17 and 18 as a Category 4 hurricane Catastrophe .

The Fountain Valley massacre was a mass shooting Use_firearm that occurred Coming_to_be on the afternoon of 6 September 1972 at the Fountain Valley Golf Course in St. Croix , United States Virgin Islands .

The public 's perception of a racially tinged motivation for the killings Killing and fear of further violence Violence led to Causation a steep decline Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale in tourism to St. Croix , from which the island 's tourism Traveling industry did not begin Process_start to recover Recovering until decades later .