Haitian radio journalist Jean Liphète Nelson died in hospital from wounds he sustained when his car came under heavy gunfire on Monday (5 March).
Nelson, 38, ran Radio Boukman, a radio station he founded in 2004 in Cité Soleil, an impoverished and historically violent community on the northern outskirts of Port-au-Prince.
Four gunmen shot at Nelson's car, which had four passengers. One was killed immediately and another, Nelson's younger brother, was wounded.
Employees of Radio Boukman spoke of Nelson's killing as a tremendous loss for the community. Lesly Hilaire, a journalist with the station, said: "He truly wanted to change the image of the area."
It is not known whether the murder was linked in any way to Nelson's work as a journalist. He is the first media worker to be killed in Haiti since 2005.
Source: IPI
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