Second Kenyan Cop Shot in Haiti Mission

A police officer who is among a team deployed to the ongoing Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission in Haiti was Tuesday shot and injured during an operation in Port-au-Prince.

This came a day before Constable Samuel Tompoi Kaetuai who was shot and killed on February 23 in the same area was set to be buried in his rural home in Kajiado.

Kaetuai was among a team that was pursuing a gang when he was shot in the head and died.

Kenya has deployed at least 800 police officers under MSS mission to Haiti to help in combating gangs.

The current mission is expected to have a total of 2,500 personnel, with the Bahamas, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin and Chad also pledging to send police and soldiers.

Haiti has been grappling with escalating gang violence, with the United Nations reporting that at least 5,601 people were killed in gang-related incidents last year—1,000 more than in 2023.

The UN also documented 315 lynchings of alleged gang members and 281 suspected summary executions by police. This violence has displaced over a million Haitians, according to the UN’s migration agency.