Assassination of Jovenel Moïse

Jovenel Moïse, the president of Haiti, was assassinated by a group of unknown armed men. It happened in Port-au-Prince at his private home on 7 July 2021 at 1 am EDT. Moïse's wife, First Lady Martine Moïse, was wounded and was hospitalized after the attack.
Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph has said that he is in control of the country.
Shooting and death of a President.
Moïse was killed in the early hours of 7 July 2021, when unknown gunmen attacked his residence in Pèlerin 5, a district of Pétion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince. Martine Moïse, the First Lady of Haiti, was hospitalized from wounds sustained during the attack.
Neighbors of Moïse say they heard heavy machine gun fire shortly after the attack. Video taken by residents living near the site of the attack has the voice of one man with an American accent, speaking in English, who claimed over a megaphone during the attack to be a member of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Suspects.
Those who orchestrated the assassination and their motives are unknown. The gunmen accused of being those who killed Moïse were identified as 28 foreigners, of whom 26 were Colombians and two Haitain-Americans.