This Monday morning, a Haitian merchant, Germayn Eliana, 55, was shot dead as she prepared to leave his home, located in the Ortiz Street, of the sector Los Blocks (Villa Centrale, Barahona), a murder that shocked the residents of the neighborhood.

Eliana Germayn, was preparing to travel to the city of Azua, where she sold clothes is when she opened her door to leave home, she was hit by bullets three times. According to a son of the victim, the killers before fleeing, managed to take the bag of his mother, in which was his personal documents and a sum of money indefinite.

A neighbor visibly shocked recounted speaking of the victim "She lived in a house she owned lower of Los Blocks, but she had moved to escape the thieves [...] but she was killed by criminals [...]"

Members of Criminal Investigations and the Department of Homicides of the South Regional Directorate of the National Police, a representative of the public prosecutor and the coroner, Dr. Miguel Garcia Ortiz have went to the scene, for surveys of indices, taking testimonies and the opening of an investigation of this villainous crime in order to find the culprits.

The body of Mrs Eliana Germayn will be sent to the National Institute of Forensic Science, based in Azua, for an autopsy as required by law in such cases. Thereafter, the body should be repatriated to Port-au-Prince where she was from.

S/ iciHaiti