Jean Woody Vilmont was a police officer within the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police, in the Financial and Economic Affairs Office. He was shot dead by armed gang members at around 10.30pm on the evening of 5 January, in the district of Delmas (a suburb of the capital, Port-au-Prince).
Jean was the first police officer to be murdered in Haiti in 2024, and the second person to be murdered in Delmas that day. At least 24 police officers were murdered or killed in the line of duty in Haiti during 2024.