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Head of Haiti's police academy killed at training facility

Soldiers stand guard near the residence of Claude Joseph in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 11, 2021, four days after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. [AP Photo]

The director of Haiti's National Police Academy was shot and killed at the doors of a police training facility in a gang-controlled neighborhood in the country's capital of Port-au-Prince, Haitian police said Friday night.

The killing of Harington Rigaud is just the latest in a number of attacks against law enforcement, including the killings of police officers and attacks on official buildings.

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