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Marines Kill Driver at Haiti Checkpoint
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 
Filed at 10:24 a.m. ET

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- U.S. Marines shot and killed the driver of a 
vehicle speeding up to a military checkpoint, spokesman Sgt. Timothy Edwards 
told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

A passenger in the car was wounded in the shooting Monday night, which was 
the second reported fatality by the peacekeepers. Marines said they shot an 
armed man who fired at Marines during an attack on a demonstration Sunday that 
left seven dead and more than 30 wounded.

``When you see a vehicle approaching at high speed it is seen as a threat, so 
the Marines opened fire,'' Edwards said in a telephone interview. ``The 
driver was killed ... A second man was injured and turned over to the Haitian 
police.''

Edwards said the driver's body was turned over to the International Committee 
of the Red Cross.

But a body remained near the checkpoint area on Port-au-Prince's main Delmas 
Road on Tuesday morning, and a man who said his cousin had been shot and 
killed by Marines identified it as that of Mutial Telusma.

The cousin, Jean-Claude Batiste, said Telusma had picked up his brother 
Sedelin Telusma from his work at the international airport at around 8 p.m. (0100 
GMT) and was driving home at high speed, which is normal in these dangerous 
times in Haiti.

``The road was blocked and he didn't know, just kept going and he was shot,'' 
Batiste told the AP, saying he had got the story from the wounded Sedelin 
Telusma, who was being treated for two gunshot wounds.