Haiti president’s assassination: What we know so far
Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated by armed assailants who stormed his private residence in the capital, Port-au-Prince, on 7 July.
Here is what we know so far.
What happened?
A group of gunmen broke into the home of President Moïse in the Pelerin neighbourhood at 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT) on Wednesday 7 July.
They shot the president 12 times.
Mr Moïse was found lying on his back, his shirt soaked in blood, with his left eye gouged out, a magistrate said. He had bullet wounds to his forehead, and several to his torso. He died at the scene.
The First Lady, Martine Moïse, was also shot but survived. She has been airlifted to Florida, in the US, and is said to be in a stable condition.
The couple’s adult daughter, Jomarlie Moïse, hid in her brother’s bedroom and was unhurt. She and her two brothers are in “safe locations”, officials said.
How did the attackers get in?
Video footage, which has not been independently verified but which is thought to have been taken as the assailants entered the property, shows armed men dressed in black arriving in white SUVs.
A man appears to have been forced to lie face down in the street while another man can be heard shouting in English over loudspeaker “DEA [US Drug Enforcement Administration} operation, everybody stay down!”
Haiti’s ambassador to the US, Bocchit Edmond, said that while the attackers had disguised themselves as US drug agents, he believed there was “no way” they really were US agents.
Officials say that the ground between the property’s gatehouse and the residence was littered with cartridge cases, indicating that multiple shots were fired.
The gunmen tied up two members of the domestic staff, while continuing to shout “DEA operation”.
They ransacked Mr Moïse’s office and took a cheque book in the couple’s names as well as the servers that held the surveillance camera footage from the residence.
The two top security officials in charge of Mr Moïse’s safety are under investigation and have been summoned to appear at hearings scheduled for 13 and 14 July.