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Music Icon Wyclef Jean Responds to Assassination of Haiti President

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Music icon Wyclef Jean has responded to the tragic assassination of President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti.

The Haitian born music exec expressed his thoughts yesterday on Twitter about the recent act of domestic terrorism going on in his native country.

Wyclef tweeted,
“Saddened by the dramatic daily events in Haiti. The assassination of
@moisejovenel is an attack on the institution of the presidency & is a tragedy! My prayers r with his family & 4 my Haitian brothers & sisters who are the daily victims of this chaotic situation.”

Yesterday, Jovenel Moïse [[ Zho-ven-El Moi-ees ]] was killed in an attack on his private residence on the outskirts of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The authorities said late Wednesday that they had intercepted the “suspected assassins.”

According to the Haiti police chief, Léon Charles, following the killing, four prime suspects involved in the crime were killed by police in a shoot out and two were arrested. He also said that three police officers who had been held hostage were freed.

“The police are engaged in a battle with the assailants,” he said at a news conference, noting that the authorities were still in pursuit of some suspects. “We are pursuing them so that, in a gunfight, they meet their fate or in gunfight they die, or we apprehend them.”

The authorities did not name any of the suspects or cite any evidence linking them to the assassination.

This is a developing story and will be updated when more information becomes available.

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Haiti President Assassinated and Wife Injured Overnight

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Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated and wife injured in deadly home invasion attack.

The country’s interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph said in statement that President Jovenel Moïse [[ Zho-ven-El  Moi-ees ]] was fatally shot around 1 a.m. by unidentified Spanish-speaking assailants in his private residence. Calling the attack “Odious, inhumane, and barbarous.”

The 53-year-old president’s wife, Martine Moïse was also shot but survived and is being hospitalized. 

The assassination occurred amid a rising wave of politically linked violence in the impoverished Caribbean nation. Haiti still has not recovered from the devastating 2010 earthquake and Hurricane Matthew that struck in 2016.

 Moïse was a former banana exporter who spent the last year in a political fight with the opposition over the terms of his presidency.  

He claimed his five-year term should end next year while the opposition says he should have left office in February. 

People in Haiti are in shock today after the news of the assassination of country’s President and attempt on the First Lady. The Prime Minister is asking for calm and plans to address the nation soon. 

With Haiti politically divided, and facing a growing humanitarian crisis and shortages of food, there are fears of widespread disorder.

This is a developing story and will be updated when more information becomes available.

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[WATCH] Ultramagnetic MC’s Ced Gee: Scott La Rock Was Assassinated

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Boogie Down Productions founder and producer Scott La Rock was killed at the behest B Boy Records, the late producer’s friend and collaborator Ced Gee says during an interview with author and journalist Soren Baker on Unique Access Entertainment. Ced Gee and Scott La Rock worked together on Boogie Down Productions’ debut album, 1987’s landmark Criminal Minded album, which was released on B Boy Records.

Scott La Rock was shot and killed in New York, New York on August 27, 1987. He was going to help fellow Boogie Down Productions member D-Nice defuse an argument he had gotten to regarding a woman he was interested in. Even though Scott helped to resolve the conflict, Ced Gee says Scott was killed as part of a plan by B Boy Records.

“Kris and Scott was on a label where it was run by criminals,” Ced Gee says to Soren Baker. “In the end, they assassinated Scott. That was an assassination. The shooter was in place.”

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