Haiti journalist killed by gunman outside bank

Haiti — Haitian police say a radio journalist has been killed by a gunman who tried to rob him outside a bank.
Deputy police spokesman Garry Desrosiers says Jean Richard Louis Charles was fatally shot on a busy street in Port-au-Prince after withdrawing about $1,000.

Desrosiers says the 30-year-old Radio Kiskeya journalist resisted when he was assaulted by three robbers Wednesday. One of the gunmen shot him in the head and the shoulder, and he was declared dead at the scene.

An off-duty police officer fatally shot the gunman. The two other suspects escaped.

The body of Radio Kiskeya news reporter Jean Richard Louis-Charles, front, lies near the body a suspected armed robber, back, on a downtown street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday Feb. 9, 2011. According to police, an off-duty officer shot and killed the armed robber after the armed robber shot the 30-year-old journalist in the head during an attempted robbery. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

The body of Radio Kiskeya news reporter Jean Richard Louis-Charles, front, lies on a downtown street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday Feb. 9, 2011. According to police, an off-duty officer shot and killed a suspected armed robber after the armed robber allegedly shot the 30-year-old journalist in the head during an attempted robbery. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)