US Charges 4 Key Suspects in Killing of Haiti’s President

Suspects in the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise, among them Haitian-American citizens James Solages (L) and Joseph Vincent (2nd L), are shown to the media at the General Direction of the police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 8, 2021. Odelyn Joseph/AP Photo

MIAMI—Four key suspects in the killing of Haiti’s president appeared for the first time in U.S. federal court Wednesday to face accusations that they plotted and participated in his assassination, a day after they were transferred to the United States for prosecution.

Haitian-Americans James Solages, Joseph Vincent and Christian Emmanuel Sanon and Colombian citizen Germán Rivera García looked calm as they entered a federal court in Miami wearing beige prisoner uniforms with their hands and ankles shackled.