If they go back, they’re going to be killed.” “There was nothing I could do except tell them to come in,” Almicar said. They are among more than 165,000 Haitians who have fled their homes amid a surge in gang violence, with nowhere to turn in this capital of nearly 3 million people.Īlmicar, who once lived in Scranton, Pennsylvania but moved back to Haiti in 2007, uses his own money. Jean-Kere Almicar opened his home to their distraught parents, then another family, then another, until there were nearly 200 people camped out in his front yard and nearby. Two brothers, 2 and 9, died in the November accident. Forced out of the neighborhood, one family of four lived on the streets of Port-au-Prince until they were struck by a truck as they slept.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A gang rampaged through the Cite Soleil slum, killing and raping and setting fire to hundreds of wood-and-tin homes.