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Daughter and Autopsy Expert Testify as Miami Trial Probing Haiti President's Killing Moves Forward

Prosecutors describe a South Florida-organized plot to remove Jovenel Moise, intending to install a chosen successor.

FILE - In this April 7, 2018, file photo, Haiti's President Jovenel Moise, center, leaves the museum during a ceremony marking the 215th anniversary of revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture's death, at the National Pantheon museum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)
FILE - Artists paint a portrait of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moise near the presidencial residence where he was assassinated two years ago in the Petion-ville area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)
FILE - Former first lady of Haiti, Martine Moise, speaks, accompanied by her children, at the funeral of her slain husband, former President Jovenel Moise, on July 23, 2021, in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2019, file photo, Haiti's President Jovenel Moise speaks during an interview in his office in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)

Overview

  • Jomarlie Moise told jurors she hid in a bathroom with her brother as gunmen stormed the family home on July 7, 2021.
  • A Haitian medical examiner testified that Jovenel Moise suffered at least a dozen gunshot wounds, including a fatal shot to the heart and another to the head fired from close range.
  • Earlier this week, Martine Moise gave two days of testimony describing her own injuries and alleging connections to the killing by former leaders Michel Martelly and Ariel Henry, saying she has filed a complaint against Henry.
  • Defense attorneys pressed the widow on discrepancies with prior FBI reports and argue the four defendants were misled by others, pointing to Joseph Felix Badio as a mastermind within Haiti.
  • Four South Florida-linked men — Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla and James Solages — have pleaded not guilty and face possible life sentences, as five co-defendants have already received life terms in the U.S.