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Two American Christian missionaries were killed by gang violence in Haiti on Thursday, said Missouri State Rep. Ben Baker, whose daughter, Natalie, died in the attack.
Davy and Natalie Lloyd, full-time missionaries to Haiti, were shot and killed at 9 p.m. Thursday, according to Missions In Haiti, Inc. Baker posted about the attack on Facebook.
“My heart is broken in a thousand pieces. I’ve never felt this kind of pain,” Baker wrote. “They went to Heaven together. Please pray for my family we desperately need strength. And please pray for the Lloyd family as well. I have no other words for now.”
Missions In Haiti is a nonprofit Christian ministry founded by David and Alicia Lloyd that has operated in the Caribbean nation since 2000, according to the group’s website. The couple’s son, Davy, and his wife, Natalie Lloyd (Baker), joined the mission after they were married in June 2022, according to Natalie’s Instagram account.
According to the nonprofit, Davy, Natalie and several children were at a youth group gathering at church on Thursday when “they were ambushed by a gang of 3 trucks full of guys.”
“Davy was taken to the house tied up and beat. The gang then took our trucks and loaded everything up they wanted and left,” Missions In Haiti said in a social media post.
The group recounted that “another gang” went to the scene “to see what was going on and if they could help, so they say.”
“No one understood what they were doing, not sure what took place but one was shot and killed and now this gang went into full attack mode,” Missions In Haiti said.
Davy, Natalie and another individual named Jude were in the house, communicating what was happening to Missions In Haiti via Starlink satellite internet. As they hid, the gangs began shooting at the house, according to Missions In Haiti.
Missions in Haiti lost contact with the missionaries. Hours later, they posted that Davy, Natalie and Jude were killed in the attack.
Missions in Haiti and Sen. Baker did not immediately respond to requests for additional information.
Former President Donald Trump weighed in on the tragedy, posting “God bless Davy and Natalie” on Truth Social.
“Such a tragedy. Haiti is totally out of control. Find the killers NOW!!!” Trump wrote.
Haiti, an island nation plagued by poverty, natural disasters and corruption, has plunged into further turmoil since Feb. 29, when gangs launched coordinated attacks, burned police stations, opened fire on the main international airport and stormed Haiti’s two biggest prisons, releasing more than 4,000 inmates. The country’s largest seaport also remains paralyzed as food, medication and other critical items dwindle.
Gang leader Jimmy “Barbeque” Chérizier and his “G9 Families and Allies” claimed responsibility for the mass jailbreak and accompanying bloodbath, which left at least nine dead and forced the U.S. to issue urgent warnings to leave Haiti “as soon as possible.” More than 2,500 people have been killed or injured in Haiti from January to March, the Associated Press reported.
“Barbeque” came to power after rival gang leaders Joly “Yonyon” Germine and Eliande Tunis were arrested in Florida and convicted for the October 2021-armed abduction and ransom of 16 U.S. citizens and one Canadian, including five children as young as eight months, during a missionary trip to an orphanage.
President Biden’s administration has agreed to contribute $300 million to a multinational force that will include 1,000 police officers from Kenya who have been sent to Haiti to reestablish law and order.
“Haiti is in an area of the Caribbean that is a very volatile,” Biden said at a news conference with Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday. “There’s a lot going on in this hemisphere. So we’re in a situation where we want to do all we can without us looking like America once again is stepping over and deciding this is what must be done.”
Haiti’s main international airport in Port-au-Prince reopened for the first time since March on Monday, though the seaport remains closed. Gangs control 80% of the capital, according to the AP.
The U.S. government has evacuated hundreds of citizens by helicopter who fled the violence, along with nonprofit groups operating in the besieged capital.
The U.S. in recent weeks has also flown military planes over Haiti and landed them at the Toussaint-Louverture airport to help prepare for the arrival of foreign troops.
“I can tell you for sure that deployment will happen in the next few days, few weeks,” Kenya’s foreign affairs principal secretary, Korir Sing’oei, said on Sunday. source
TABASCO, Mexico – Heat-stressed, endangered howler monkeys are dropping out of trees and dying across Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico, as the third relentless heat wavethis season bakes the region.
Conservation and rescue groups have made impassioned pleas for villagers to leave fresh water in the jungle for the heat-sickened primates. One group, COBIUS, reported “massive deaths.”
COBIUS told Reuters that at least 100 monkeys have died so far.
Civil Protection officers said villagers have gathered the bodies in mass graves and covered them with lime for disposal, with few other options.
While officials said the cause of death of this many primates appears to be heat-related, scientists have more work to do.
“Together with local authorities, academic institutions and civil society, we continue to coordinate the animal health protocols in Tabasco and Chiapas to determine the causes of death of primates,” posted the Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resourceson social media. “We will tell you everything.”
The agency asked the public not to touch the monkeys until scientists discover the exact cause of death.
“To date, various hypotheses are shared about the reason for these deaths, such as heat stroke, dehydration, malnutrition or fumigation of crops with pesticides, so studies will also be carried out to determine the cause,” said the secretary in a statement.
Tabasco’s Civil Protection Institute (IPCET) blames the deaths on dehydration due to high temperatures. IPCET sends out “brigades to rescue and assist” the monkeys, along with scientists from the local university, vet clinics and officials from an ecological reserve.
“At the points, the condition of the herds is inspected, water fountains are provided and food is provided, mainly fruits, so that the monkeys stay hydrated and can withstand the intense heat,” IPCET said in a statement.
According to rescue groups, the drought, heat and deforestation of the area, along with climate change.
“The intense heat, coupled with the lack of rain in these months has caused damage to the habitat of monkeys, who do not find the vital liquid,” posted COBIUS.
The UMA Saraguatos Biopark claims their monkeys also suffer from smoke inhalation from a large wildfire burning in Tobasco. The spokesperson for a plantation agreed that fires were part of the problem.
“Several veterinarians in the area are attending monkeys that lead them to the brink of seizure with the following symptoms: they arrive with temperatures of 41 to 43 (105-109 degrees Farenheit), they have a brutal heat stroke from the conditions in which we all have here in Tabasco,” posted plantation Hacienda la Luz about the monkeys on the property.
“They bring parasitosis (disease from parasites), they can even bring viruses and bacteria that they normally have, but now their immune system is depressed, they have no access to water, or proper nutrition because NO TREES AVAILABLE, every day there are fewer trees, (and people keep burning),” the statement continued.
To help, citizens bring fruit and water to the forests. Civil Protection and rescue groups have said that monkeys need food and water in the tree tops, not the ground, though. The group asked for donations of rope and buckets to string sustenance closer to where the monkeys live. source
California has already voted to legalize the composting of human remains in 2027, but some residents are not willing to wait that long.
The Los Angeles Times wrote about California resident Blaire Van Valkenburgh being one of a growing number of residents composting the remains of their loved ones, “But this kind of burial — natural organic reduction — won’t be legal in California until 2027, so Van Valkenburgh paid to fly her husband’s body to Washington, the first state to legalize human composting in 2020.”
Until 2027, it appears that there will be a budding industry of collaboration to facilitate compost burials for those who live in California. “[I]n the first of what will probably be other such collaborations, the family-owned Clarity Funerals and Cremation in Anaheim has partnered with Return Home to offer a package deal for people in Southern California who want to compost their loved ones in Washington,” the LA Times wrote.
The same outlet reported that currently, the three human composting mortuariesoperating in Washington “have reported steady business from out-of-state customers, especially Californians, who are either flying or driving their deceased loved ones north.”
Former Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, who took credit for authoring California’s law, spoke about her reasons for doing so.
“I love the outdoors and I really want to be a tree in my afterlife,” she told the LA Times. “My family has a crypt in Mexico, where there are no trees or shade around …. I want my soil to be used specifically for a plum tree, my favorite fruit, and my loved ones can visit me there.”
Garcia added that she wanted an earlier date than 2027 for legalization of human composting, but needed to satisfy the state Cemetery and Funeral Bureau’s request for more time to set rules and standards.
“I didn’t want to risk it not getting passed,” Garcia said.”The truth is, the last gesture most of us will make on this earth is toxic,” human composting pioneer Katrina Spade wrote in 2016, which was quoted in the piece.
