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Retired BPD detective shot dead in Haiti
By adamg on Thu, 08/27/2015 - 10:03am
Yves Dambreville, 66, a retired Boston Police detective, was shot to death by bikers in Port-au-Prince yesterday, InfoHaiti reports, adding the former head of Haiti's National Police was shot twice in the back in the same incident.
Dambreville, a Vietnam veteran and Dorchester resident, served as liaison to the Caribbean/Haitian community for Mayor Flynn. After his retirement in Boston in 2012, Dambreville worked for a UN program training Haitian police.
The Dorchester Reporter has more on his life.
In a statement, Commissioner William Evans said:
Detective Dambreville was a hardworking, dedicated and well respected member of the department. I was saddened to hear of his passing and send my thoughts and prayers to the entire Dambreville family.
State Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry said:
I am deeply saddened to learn of the death of Yves Dambreville who was an important, pioneering figure in Boston's Haitian community over the last four decades. Dambreville was one of the first Haitian Boston Police officers and was a key liaison between the city's emerging Caribbean community and city government. He was a friend and mentor to many that followed in his footsteps. Our prayers and sympathies are extended to his wife Ingrid, their four children and extended family. We stand ready to assist them in their time of need.
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Comments
Man, that sucks.
Seems he was really trying to help his native country and this is his thanks. Damn!
Senseless
I was a neighbor in Lower Mills who grew up with his niece and daughter. Very nice family, and was well respected in Boston. He will be missed.
Very sad day.
Boston has lost a true hero and a man who led through example and action.
A BOSTON'S SON MURDERED
Yves A. Isidor ·
A BOSTON'S SON MURDERD
As the failing state that is Haiti keeps failing and fast so is tragic death, with rapidity, is depriving untold number of its sons and daughters of the superbly needed opportunity to establish their bona fides as those capable of helping the vast majority of their fellow citizens to, hopefully, also overcome an unwanted economic condition known as "dehumanizing poverty." So my expressions of condolences go, not only to the now late Mr. Yves Dambreville ...'s immediate family members but the whole of Boston's Haitian-American community, for whom every day will be a day of mourning, and for a long duration of time so, as members of that particular vibrant community also continue to refuse to believe what is now a fait accompli, Mr. Dambriville has been violently sent into the solitude of the darkness of death by bandits.
Prof. Yves A. Isidor, executive editor of Whaitians.com and author of the book that is widely awaited by untold number of people, "Muhammad, the prophet of devastation ... From him to God, the grand forgery, and Haiti/Dominican Republic, the genociders, wheredo we go from here.