{"id":226410,"date":"2026-04-10T15:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226410\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:08:12","slug":"haitian-man-faces-deportation-after-being-accused-of-brutally-killing-florida-mother-at-gas-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226410\/","title":{"rendered":"Haitian man faces deportation after being accused of brutally killing Florida mother at gas station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/haiti\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Haitian<\/a> man who has been arrested and charged in connection to brutally killing a mother in Fort Myers is now facing deportation, according federal officials.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/united-states-department-of-homeland-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Department of Homeland Security<\/a> (DHS) said Rolbert Joachin repeatedly hit a woman in the head with a hammer at a gas station in Fort Myers, killing her.<\/p>\n<p>Joachin is currently on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">immigration<\/a> hold and officials say he is in the United States illegally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a> posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116377422440266990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Truth Social<\/a> Thursday night about the arrest saying in part &#8220;An illegal alien criminal from Haiti, who was released into our country by the worst president in history, crooked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a>, and the radical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Democrats<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/united-states-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Congress<\/a>, just beat an innocent woman to death with a hammer at a gas station in Florida. This animal was allowed to stay here because the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/biden-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Biden administration<\/a> granted him, and all Haitians, &#8216;Temporary Protective Status.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said that after entering the country in August 2022, a federal judge issued a final order of removal against Joachin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DHS says Joachin was granted temporary protection status which expired in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The arrest of this criminal is an example of how ICE and local authorities can work together to swiftly bring criminal to justice and make out communities safer,&#8221; Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2026\/04\/07\/haitian-illegal-alien-violently-kills-innocent-mother-repeatedly-hitting-her-hammer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1173781538070448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fort Myers Police Department<\/a>, Joachin was taken to Lee County Jail after his arrest and the incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Haitian man who has been arrested and charged in connection to brutally killing a mother in Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[409,28,30,29,1841,97478,3806,77999],"class_list":{"0":"post-226410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-truth-social","14":"tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","15":"tag-united-states-department-of-homeland-security"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}