Crisis Grips Haiti As Attackers Kill President in Home

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4 Suspects Dead and 2 in Custody After Battle With Police, Officials Say

This article is by Catherine Porter, void that deepened the turmoil Michael Crowley and Constant and violence that have gripped Méheut. Haiti for months, threatening to The first explosions rang out af- tip one of the world’s most trou- ter 1 a.m., shattering the calm in bled nations further into lawless- the neighborhood that was home ness. to President Jovenel Moïse and While the details of who shot the many of Haiti’s most affluent citi- president and why remained un- zens. known, four people suspected of Residents immediately feared being involved in the assassina- two of the terrors that have tion were killed by the police in a plagued the nation — gang vio- gun battle and two others were ar- lence or an earthquake — but by rested, Haiti’s police chief said dawn, a much different reality had late Wednesday. The chief, Léon emerged: The president was Charles, also said that three police dead. officers who had been held A group of assailants had hostage were freed. stormed Mr. Moïse’s residence on “The police are engaged in a the outskirts of the capital, Port- battle with the assailants,” he said au-Prince, early Wednesday, at a news conference, noting that shooting him and wounding his the authorities were still chasing wife, Martine Moïse, in what offi- some suspects. “We are pursuing cials called a well-planned opera- them so that, in a gunfight, they tion that included “foreigners” meet their fate or in gunfight they who spoke Spanish. die, or we apprehend them.” In a televised broadcast to the In recent months, protesters nation, the nation’s interim prime had taken to the streets to demand GABRIELA BHASKAR/THE NEW YORK TIMES minister, Claude Joseph, appealed Mr. Moïse step down in February, Eric L. Adams said at a parade for essential workers in Manhattan on Wednesday, “Finally one of your own is going to understand.” for calm and presented himself as five years after his election, at the new head of the government, what they deemed was the end of announcing that he and his fellow his term. ministers had declared a “state of Armed gangs have taken great- siege” and placed Haiti under a er control of the streets, terroriz- A Political Outsider Mastered the Inside Game Rare Heat Seen form of martial law. ing poor neighborhoods and send- The assassination left a political Continued on Page A6 cratic coalition that attracted As Proof Earth This article is by Katie Glueck, Adams Aimed Message working-class Black and Latino Dana Rubinstein and Jeffery C. voters and some moderate white Mays. at Working Class voters. Is Warming Up The morning after winning the He was among the most mes- Democratic nomination for mayor sage-disciplined candidates in the of New York City, Eric L. Adams race, repeatedly declaring that By HENRY FOUNTAIN land use policy. And he was the public safety was the “prerequi- on Wednesday asserted that he Brooklyn mayoral candidate who The extraordinary heat wave had won a mandate to address the site” to prosperity, a pitch that be- that scorched the Pacific North- lost out on first-place endorse- came increasingly resonant amid urgent struggles of America’s ur- ments from prominent Brooklyn- west last week would almost cer- a spike in violent crime. And he ban working class. area members of the New York tainly not have occurred without used his personal story of over- As he appeared at a parade cel- congressional delegation. global warming, an international coming poverty and police vio- ebrating essential workers and But in other ways, Mr. Adams team of climate researchers said lence to emerge as a credible mes- toured morning television news emerged in the mayoral contest as Wednesday. shows, Mr. Adams, a former police something of an establishment senger on urgent issues of safety, Temperatures were so extreme captain who would be the city’s figure, earning the support of justice and inequality. — including readings of 116 de- second Black mayor, sought to ce- leading labor unions; locking “We don’t live in theory,” said grees Fahrenheit in Portland, ment his image as a man who un- down key party officials, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, a civil rights Ore., and a Canadian record of 121 derstands what it is to fear both two fellow borough presidents; leader who has known Mr. Adams in British Columbia — that the re- gun violence and police miscon- and building an old-school Demo- Continued on Page A12 searchers had difficulty saying duct. It was one thing to theorize just how rare the heat wave was. about solving problems of injus- But they estimated that in any giv- DIEU NALIO CHERY/ASSOCIATED PRESS tice and inequality, he suggested. How Ranked-Choice Tabulations Led to the Winner en year there was only a 0.1 per- President Jovenel Moïse, who was assassinated on Wednesday. It was another to experience them cent chance of such an intense ROUND: 4 5 6 7 8 as a working-class person of color heat wave occurring. in New York. “Although it was a rare event, it “Finally one of your own is go- would have been virtually impos- Adams 31.2% 31.7 34.7 40.5 ing to understand,” Mr. Adams 50.5% sible without climate change,” Covid’s True Toll Local Leaders said to a throng of health care said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh of workers at a parade. the Royal Netherlands Meteoro- In U.S. Prisons Prove Inventive If Mr. Adams sounded, in that logical Institute, who conducted moment, like a political outsider, it Wiley 21.9 22.3 the study with 26 other scientists, 26.1 part of a collaborative group Tough to Gauge As Aid Arrives is because for many years he was 30.4 more iconoclast than institution- called World Weather Attribution. alist. If the world warms another 1.5 Garcia 19.9 49.5% Mr. Adams was the rebel police 20.5 degrees Fahrenheit, which could This article is by Maura Turcotte, By GLENN THRUSH 24.4 officer who agitated against police occur this century barring drastic Rachel Sherman, Rebecca Gries- and ALAN RAPPEPORT 29.0 cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, bach and Ann Hinga Klein. misconduct from within the force, Yang 12.6 WASHINGTON — When Steve eventually rising to captain. He 13.0 similar events would not be so Richard Williamson, 86, was Adler, the mayor of Austin, heard rare, the researchers found. The was the borough president who at- Stringer* 5.7 14.8 Did not rank rushed from a Florida jail to a hos- the Biden administration planned remaining chances of such a severe heat pital last July. Within two weeks, to give billions of dollars to states tracted more attention for quirky Morales* 12.4 3.2 candidates wave occurring somewhere in the he had died of Covid-19. and localities in the $1.9 trillion stunts — displaying drowned rats McGuire* 2.8 world would increase to as much Hours after Cameron Melius, pandemic aid package, he knew at a news conference to draw at- Donovan 2.6 *Three candidates were eliminated after the fifth round. tention to a vermin problem, for as 20 percent in a given year. 26, was released from a Virginia exactly what he wanted to do with “For heat waves, climate instance — than for his record on Source: New York City Board of Elections CHARLIE SMART/THE NEW YORK TIMES jail in October, he was taken by his cut. change is an absolute game ambulance to a hospital, where he The remarkable growth of the changer,” said Friederike Otto, of died. The coronavirus, the au- Texas capital, fueled by a technol- Oxford University in England, one thorities said, was a contributing ogy boom, has long been shad- of the researchers. factor. owed by a rise in homelessness, so The Gates Foundation Avoids a Custody Fight Alexander Gershunov, a re- And in New York City, Juan local officials had already cobbled search meteorologist at the Cruz, 57, who fell ill with Covid-19 together $200 million for a pro- Ms. French Gates “would receive Scripps Institution of Oceanogra- while in jail, was moved from a gram to help Austin’s 3,200 home- phy in San Diego, said the findings By NICHOLAS KULISH A Power Couple Seeks personal resources from Bill for hospital’s jail ward into its regular less people. When the relief pack- her philanthropic work” separate were in keeping with what is unit before dying. age passed this spring, the city Bill Gates and Melinda French to Secure a Charity from the foundation’s endowment. known about the effects of global None of these deaths have been government quickly steered 40 Gates have at times referred to The money at stake under- warming on heat waves. included in official Covid-19 mor- percent of its take, about $100 mil- the foundation they established scores the strange mix of public “They are the extreme weather tality tolls of the jails where the lion, to fortify that effort. together as their “fourth child.” If significance — in global health, most affected by climate change,” men had been detained. And these “The inclination is to spread over the next two years they can’t be added to the $50 billion previ- poverty reduction and gender said Dr. Gershunov, who was not cases are not unique. The New money around like peanut butter, find a way to work together fol- ously amassed in its endowment equality, among other important involved in the study. York Times identified dozens of so that you help out a lot of people lowing their planned divorce, Mr. over two decades. areas — and private affairs that Temperature records for cities people who died under similar cir- who need relief,” Mr. Adler, a Dem- Gates will get full custody. “They have agreed that if after attends any move made by the and towns in the region were bro- cumstances but were not included ocrat, said in an interview. “But That was one of the most impor- two years either one of them de- first couple of philanthropy, even ken, and by a much larger margin in official counts. nobody really gets all that they tant takeaways from a series of cides that they cannot continue to after the announcement of their than the researchers had ever In some cases, in places includ- need when you do that.” announcements about the future work together, Melinda will resign split. The foundation plans to add seen in a heat wave. Given that, ing Texas, Ohio and California, The stimulus package that of the world’s largest charitable as co-chair and trustee,” Mr. Suz- trustees outside their close circle, they also raised the possibility deaths were added to facilities’ vi- President Biden signed into law in foundation made on Wednesday man said in a message on a step toward better governance that the world was witnessing a rus tolls after The Times brought March was intended to stabilize by its chief executive, Mark Suz- Wednesday to employees of the that philanthropy experts had change in how the warming cli- missing names to the attention of state and city finances drained by man, overshadowing an injection Bill and Melinda Gates Founda- urged for years. mate behaved. Perhaps, they said, officials. In other cases, people the coronavirus crisis, providing of $15 billion in resources that will tion. If that happened, he added, Continued on Page A19 Continued on Page A16 Continued on Page A14 Continued on Page A15

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