Police in Haiti say officers shot and killed former rebel leader Wilfort Ferdinand
Source: Associated Press
Police in Haiti say officers shot and killed former rebel leader Wilfort Ferdinand
Updated 10:07 AM EDT, September 18, 2025
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A spokesman for Haiti’s National Police said Thursday that officers killed former rebel leader Wilfort Ferdinand after they accused him of opening fire at a police checkpoint in the coastal town of Gonaïves earlier this week.
Ferdinand was a suspected gang leader who played a key role in the 2004 uprising that ousted former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
“Police had no intention of killing anyone,” police spokesman Michel-Ange Louis Jeune told The Associated Press of Tuesday’s shooting.
He said that Ferdinand had approached the checkpoint in a car with tinted windows only to back up and then open fire on officers, who returned fire and killed him and an unidentified person traveling with him.
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