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Two Haitian Americans detained in slaying of Haiti’s president
Six people were arrested in the killing of Jovenel Moise and seven other suspected assailants were killed in a gunfight with police.
By EVENS SANON, DÁNICA COTO and JOSHUA GOODMANAssociated Press
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Suspects in the assassination of Haiti s President Jovenel Moise sit on the floor handcuffed after being detained, at the General Direction of the police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday. Jean Marc Hervé Abélard/Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Seventeen suspects have been detained so far in the stunning assassination of Haiti’s president, and Haitian authorities say two are believed to hold dual U.S.-Haitian citizenship and Colombia’s government says at least six are former members of its army.
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Soldiers patrol in Petion Ville, the neighborhood where the late Haitian President Jovenel Moise lived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. Moïse was assassinated in an attack on his private residence early Wednesday, and first lady Martine Moïse was shot in the overnight attack and hospitalized, according to a statement from the countryâs interim prime minister. Joseph Odelyn
ADDS THAT PROTESTERS ALSO WANT POLICE TO HAND OVER THE DETAINEES WHO ARE ALIVE - People pressure police to hand over two men who were arrested and the bodies of two men who were brought in by police after they were killed by police, in order to burn them in retaliation for the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, at a police station of Petion Ville in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, July 8, 2021. According to National Police Director Leon Charles, the dead and detained are suspects in Moïse s July 7 assassination.
2 Haitian Americans detained in assassination
Evens Sanon
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Two men believed to be Haitian Americans one of them purportedly a former bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in Port au Prince have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Haiti’s president, a senior Haitian official said Thursday.
Mathias Pierre, Haiti’s minister of elections, told The Associated Press that James Solages was among six people arrested in the 36 hours since the brazen killing of President Jovenel Moise by gunmen at his home in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday.
Four other suspected assailants were killed in a gunfight with police and two are still missing, Pierre said. Earlier authorities had said seven suspects were killed.
Published Thursday, July 8, 2021 8:03AM EDT Last Updated Thursday, July 8, 2021 5:24PM EDT PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Two men believed to be Haitian Americans - one of them purportedly a former bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in Port au Prince - have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Haiti s president, Haitian officials said Thursday. James Solages and Joseph Vincent were among 17 suspects detained in the brazen killing of President Jovenel Moise by gunmen at his home in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday. Fifteen of them are from Colombia, according to Leon Charles, chief of Haiti s National Police. He added that three other suspects were killed by police and eight others are on the run. Charles had earlier said seven were killed.