FBI arrests main suspect in Haiti president assassination
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U.S. authorities have taken into custody a suspect in the assassination of the Haitian president. Mario Antonio Palacios is a Colombian national who fled to Jamaica and had evaded arrest for months.
According to the federal criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday, Palacios and others entered the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 7, 2021, in a plot to kill President Jovenel Moise. Moise was shot 12 times and died as a result, according to an autopsy and local authorities. First lady Martine Moise also suffered multiple gunshots but survived and was treated in Miami. Police carry the coffin of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moise at the start of a funeral. (AP) A funeral is held for slain Haitian President Jovenel Moise at his family home in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, July 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) President Jovenel Moise speaks during an interview at his home in Petion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Feb. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File) Suspects in the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise are shown to the media, along with the weapons and equipment they allegedly used in the attack, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, July 8, 2021. (AP Photo / Joseph Odelyn) Leon Charles, director general of Haiti's police, leaves a room after a news conference at police headquarters in Port-au-Prince on July 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Palacios was among a group of about 20 Colombian citizens with "military training" recruited for the plan developed by Haiti-based dual Haitian-American citizens to "extract" the president.