A Haitian migrant charged with triple homicide in Fayetteville, North Carolina, who allegedly killed a number of members of his household final week, had come to the US as a part of former President Biden’s controversial migrant flights program, in response to authorities.
The Fayetteville Police Division mentioned that 26-year-old Mackendy Darbouze has been charged with three counts of first-degree homicide for allegedly killing 77-year-old Beatrice Desir, in addition to a 13-year-old and a 4-year-old.
Police responded to a house at about 9 a.m. on Feb. 21 after receiving a report {that a} stabbing had occurred in a house.
When officers arrived, they found three people affected by stab wounds inside.
Two of the victims had been juveniles, and the third sufferer was an aged girl, later recognized as Desir.
A neighborhood ABC station in Raleigh reported that authorities mentioned Darbouze greeted police on the door with blood on his fingers, face and pants.
On the time of the stabbing, authorities added, there have been three different kids inside the house.
Authorities additionally mentioned that surveillance footage allegedly exhibits Darbouze strolling round with a knife, and through a preliminary investigation, investigators positioned a knife with blood on it in his room.
Darbouze was arrested on the scene and is presently being held on the Cumberland County Detention Heart with out bond.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) instructed Fox Information that Darbouze had flown into the US in July 2024 as a part of Biden’s Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) migrant flights mass parole program.
Darbouze additionally doesn’t converse English, ICE mentioned, and their personnel interviewed him in Creole.
ICE has lodged a detainer on Darbouze.
The controversial CHNV program, which was applied underneath the Biden administration in 2022, initially allowed for asylum seekers in Venezuela to be paroled into the USA for as much as two years if they’d an individual within the nation who agreed to financially help them.
Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua had been added to the listing of nations this system supported in 2023, with this system permitting for 30,000 individuals monthly from the 4 international locations to enter the USA.
Whereas the Biden administration touted this system’s success for decreasing the numbers of people trying to illegally cross the US southern border by land, it didn’t gradual the variety of complete migrants getting into the nation, with CHNV program beneficiaries as a substitute being mandated to journey by air to a US airport earlier than being paroled into the nation.
This system drew much more scrutiny after Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan nationwide paroled into the US underneath CHNV in 2022, attacked and finally killed College of Georgia Pupil Laken Riley.
Whereas President Donald Trump shut down this system by govt order on his first day in workplace, Luttrell identified that greater than 50,000 individuals had been paroled into the US at airport ports of entry nationwide.
Fox Information’ Michael Lee contributed to this report.
