Police officer Anthony Dumas Headshot. Photo Credit: constanthaiti.info
Police officer Anthony Dumas Headshot. Photo Credit: constanthaiti.info

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Anthony Dumas, a police officer stationed in the Artibonite Department’s Maintenance of Order Unit, was killed in an ambush on the road to  Gros-Morne, on July 28. The death comes one week after another officer was killed, signifying an increasingly intensifying period of violence and warfare perpetrated by various groups. 

Dumas was shot in the head by armed individuals known to be members of the gang “Pendu,” Creole for hanged, according to local media.


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I am Juhakenson Blaise, a journalist based in the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. I cover the news that develops in this city and deals with other subjects related to the experience of Haitians for the Haitian Times newspaper. I am also a lover of poetry.