Journalist killed in Haiti
Published:Thursday | February 10, 2011 | 1:48 PM
Lobby group Reporters Without Borders says it’s dismayed about the killing of a journalist in Haiti’s Champs-de-Mars square yesterday.
Thirty-year-old Jean Richard Louis-Charles, who was working for Radio Kiskeya one of Port-au-Prince’s most popular radio stations, was fatally shot twice in the head.
Another man at the scene, identified as Jean Wilner Duperval, was also shot and killed by a plain-clothes policeman.
The police say they have since recovered the gun used to kill Louis-Charles and have made an arrest.
According to some sources, Duperval was accompanying Louis-Charles to the bank when they were being pursued by three men.
However, other witnesses say it was Duperval who fired the shots that killed the journalist.
The police have not offered any more precise indications as to the possible motive of the killing.
Louis-Charles is the first journalist to be killed in the Americas since the start of 2011.