Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise was reportedly assassinated during an attack on his private residence in the early hours Wednesday July 7, according to the country’s interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, who later declared a state of seige in the country.
A squad of gunmen stormed the president’s home and fatally shot him, according to the acting prime minister, who described the assassination as a “heinous, inhumane and barbaric act.”
The attackers are believed to be “mercenaries,” Edmond also said, referring to them as “well-trained killers.” Read more at the source.
Question: Have the killers been identified and arrested?
The gunmen spoke English and Spanish, and pretended to be U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents the report said. The search is still ongoing, according to the report
Haiti’s police chief says four suspected killers of President Jovenel Moïse have been fatally shot by police and two others arrested in an apparent hostage-taking situation, according to NPR.
Haitian police fatally shot four people suspected of assassinating President Jovenel Moïse at his home on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported, citing the Haitian police chief.
Police also arrested two others, who were described by the AP as having been heavily armed and highly trained professional killers. The arrests took place in the upscale neighborhood of Petionville, outside of Port-au-Prince, Bloomberg noted.
Details are still emerging…
Latest update from The New York Times:
Four people suspected of being involved in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti were killed by the police in a gun battle and two others were arrested, Haiti’s police chief said late Wednesday. The chief, Léon Charles, also said that three police officers who had been held hostage were freed.
“The police are engaged in a battle with the assailants,” he said at a news conference, noting that the authorities were still in pursuit of some suspects. “We are pursuing them so that, in a gunfight, they meet their fate or in gunfight they die, or we apprehend them.”
Six people have been arrested over the murder of the president. Read here