Eric Jean Baptiste, a former presidential candidate and leader of a political party in Haiti, has been killed in a shooting.
Eric Jean Baptiste, a former presidential candidate and leader of a political party in Haiti, has been killed in a shooting, a party official said Saturday. The killing stunned many in a nation already in crisis.
Baptiste was killed Friday in the community of Laboule in the capital of Port-au-Prince along with his bodyguard, according to Ricardo Nordain, spokesman for his Rally of Progressive National Democrats, which was founded in 1979 by former President Leslie Manigat.No one has been arrested."The horrific assassination of the political leader Eric Jean Baptiste and his bodyguard has once again plunged the Haitian nation into turmoil.
The killing occurred in an area where the Ti Makak gang, which means"Little Macaques," is fighting with the Toto gang for control of territory. The community is located near Pelerin, whereIn August, Yvon Buissereth, a former senator who worked for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, was killed and his body set on fire.
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