Late Wednesday night, a Haitian police chief said four people suspected of involvement in the assassination of President Juvenile Moise had been killed by police in a shootout. According to him, two more were arrested.
Leon Charles, the chief of police, said three police officers taken hostage had been released.
“The police are fighting the attackers,” he told a news conference. “We are persecuting them so that they meet their fate in a shootout, or die in a shootout, or we detain them.”
Moise was shot dead around 1 a.m. local time on Wednesday by a group of gunmen at his home.
“A group of unidentified individuals, some of whom speak Spanish, attacked the private residence of the president of the republic and thus mortally wounded the head of state,” said Claude Joseph, the acting prime minister of Haiti.
Haiti’s First Lady Martina Moses was also injured in the attack and was receiving medical treatment.