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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- An employee of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was shot dead while on a visit to his native Haiti, relatives say.
Gregoire-Ronald Chery was killed by gunmen who abducted a cousin, Nadege Charlot, his family told The Miami Herald. The family said kidnappers demanded $100,000 for Charlot's release.
"She got to speak with her mom," Ula Zucker, Chery's sister, said. "Nadege was crying. She said they beat her and burned her feet."
Pierre Jarmil Chery told the Herald in a telephone interview that he was there when his brother was shot. He said three men broke into the gated house where his cousin lives in Pelerin, a middle-class suburb of Port-au-Prince.
One of the men put a gun to his head, but it jammed when the trigger was pulled, Pierre Chery said. Other relatives were tied up.
"In Haiti, whenever the diaspora (those who left the country) is in town, they think there's money in the house," Pierre Chery of Plantation, Fla., said.
Gregoire-Ronald Chery moved to the United States as a child with his family. He spent most of his adult life in Florida.
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