Gang leader Micanor Altes, who goes by the names Wa Mikanò and Monel Felix, shot and slaughtered residents, most of them elderly, after accusing them of using Vodou to make his son ill.

Rights groups said the man who had ordered the killings was Monel Felix, also known as Mikano. Mikano is known to control Wharf Jérémie, a strategic area in the port of the capital. According to ...

The gang's leader Monel “Mikano” Felix deemed the victims responsible for his son's illness through witchcraft. Felix, was in 2022 banned from entering the neighboring Dominican Republic.