American among suspects arrested in assassination of Haiti president

An American citizen is among at least six people arrested in the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, according to a report Thursday — as other suspects were snatched off the street by an angry mob before being taken into police custody.

US citizen James Solages was nabbed in connection to the assassination and at least one other suspect is believed to be Haitian American, Mathias Pierre, Haiti’s minister of elections and inter-party relations, told the Washington Post. Dozens of civilians in the capital city of Port-au-Prince grabbed some of the alleged killers and roughed them up, telling journalists on the scene that they found the suspects hiding in bushes.