28-year-old Frantzen who worked for FS News and Lartigue, journalist at Ti Jenn Jounalis, an online news outlet, were killed in the middle of covering events along with many other journalists in the Cité Soleil when members of criminal gangs opened fire on the press, killing the pair. The killing of Frantzen was confirmed in a statement published on his employers’ website amid unconfirmed reports that the journalists’ bodies had been allegedly burned.
