What we know about the young US missionaries and religious leader killed in Haiti

The bodies of a young missionary mates from the U.S. who were attacked and fatally changeable by pack members successful Haiti are expected to beryllium transported to Missouri this week, a spokesperson for the families said Sunday.

The video featured is from a erstwhile report.

Thursday's killings of Davy and Natalie Lloyd, and Jude Montis, the section manager of a ngo group, Missions successful Haiti Inc., happened successful the assemblage of Lizon successful bluish Port-au-Prince. They were leaving a younker radical enactment astatine a church, a household subordinate told The Associated Press.

This photograph provided by Brad Searcy Photography shows Davy and Natalie Lloyd.

Brad Searcy Photography via AP

Natalie Lloyd is the girl of Missouri authorities Rep. Ben Baker.

Speaking connected behalf of the Lloyd and Baker families successful a Facebook station connected Baker's page, Cassidy Anderson said Sunday that transport had been secured for a Thursday accomplishment of the bodies successful Missouri. But Anderson added that "security is going to beryllium precise difficult."

Haiti's superior has been crumbling nether the relentless battle of convulsive gangs that power 80% of Port-au-Prince, portion authorities await the accomplishment of a constabulary unit from Kenya arsenic portion of a U.N.-backed deployment aimed astatine quelling pack unit successful the troubled Caribbean country.

Here are immoderate things to cognize astir the missionary work, which focused connected helping the children of Haiti, and the deadly pack attack.

WORKING IN HAITI

Missions successful Haiti's website says its extremity is "to spot the Gospel of Christ marque a quality successful the lives of Haiti's young people."

Davy Lloyd's parents, David and Alicia Lloyd, of Oklahoma, started the enactment successful 2000 seeking to absorption connected the children of Haiti. David and Alicia Lloyd are full-time missionaries successful the country.

"Although the full federation is steeped successful poverty, the children endure the worst," they wrote connected the website. "Thousands are malnourished, uneducated, and headed for hopeless lives isolated from Christ."

Hannah Cornett, Davy's sister, told AP that they grew up successful Haiti. Davy went to the U.S. to be a Bible assemblage and joined Natalie successful June 2022. After the wedding, the mates wasted small clip moving to Haiti to bash humanitarian work.

Cornett said Montis, a Haitian, worked astatine Missions successful Haiti for 20 years.

The organization's efforts see House of Compassion, which provides lodging for 36 children - 18 boys and 18 girls, its website says. "All are destined to enactment astatine House of Compassion until they person finished schoolhouse and are acceptable to beryllium connected their own."

Good Hope Boys' Home provides a location for 22 boys, according to the website. The enactment besides built a church, a bakery and a schoolhouse with much than 240 students.

THE ATTACK

A Facebook posting connected the Missions successful Haiti leafage stated that Davy Lloyd, 23, and Natalie Lloyd, 21, on with immoderate children, were leaving a religion erstwhile pack members successful 3 trucks ambushed them.

Davy Lloyd aboriginal called his household to archer them that pack members deed him connected the caput with the tube of a gun, forced him upstairs, stole their belongings and near him tied up, Cornett said.

As radical were helping to untie Davy Lloyd, different radical of equipped gunmen showed up, Cornett said.

"No 1 understood what they were doing, not definite what took spot but 1 was changeable and killed and present this pack went into afloat onslaught mode," Missions successful Haiti's posting said.

The mates and Montis fled to a location connected to the mission.

"They tried to instrumentality screen successful there, but the pack changeable up the house," Cornett said.

GRIEVING FAMILIES

Cornett said Montis near down 2 children, ages 2 and 6.

Montis' household could not beryllium reached for remark Friday, and Missions successful Haiti did not respond to an AP petition for comment.

Missions successful Haiti said successful a Facebook station connected Saturday that they were "facing the astir hard clip of our life."

"The embassy is moving connected getting each the insubstantial enactment done successful bid for them to beryllium flown to the states and galore much down the scenes to marque hap much rapidly and safely," the station said, adding that the children and unit of Missions successful Haiti person been relocated to a safer location.

Baker, Natalie Lloyd's begetter and a Republican authorities typical successful Missouri, said Friday connected Facebook that the couple's bodies were safely transported to the U.S. Embassy. Throughout the weekend, Baker's Facebook leafage provided updates connected the efforts to put for transport to Missouri.

On Sunday, Anderson wrote connected the families' behalf that plans firmed up and transport had been secured.

Baker wrote connected Facebook successful the aboriginal hours connected Friday that his bosom was breached "in a 1000 pieces."

"I've ne'er felt this benignant of pain," helium said. "Most of you cognize my girl and son-in-law Davy and Natalie Lloyd are afloat clip missionaries successful Haiti. They were attacked by gangs this evening and were some killed. They went to Heaven together. Please commune for my household we desperately request strength. And delight commune for the Lloyd household arsenic well. I person nary different words for now."

Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, urged President Joe Biden successful a missive Sunday to guarantee capable information measures are taken to safely instrumentality the bodies to the U.S., citing "anarchic" conditions successful gang-infested Port-au-Prince.

"Haitian gangs are heavy equipped and could hold oregon adjacent hijack the vehicles carrying the Lloyds' bodies," Hawley wrote. "I indispensable accent the captious value of capable information unit to support the transport during the travel to the last constituent of departure."

The White House did not instantly remark connected Hawley's request.

On Saturday, the families received condolences from erstwhile President Donald Trump, who spoke astatine the Libertarian National Convention successful Washington, D.C., and called it a "very, precise bittersweet moment."