Dominique, manager of Radio Haiti Inter and the station's morning news anchor, was killed by a lone gunman. According to Marie Raphaelle Pierre, a journalist at Radio Haiti Inter, the killer presented himself at the gate of the station at around 6 am on Monday, and asked Louissaint to speak to Dominique. The man said he didn't know Dominique, but that he needed to speak to him. When the unsuspecting caretaker duly pointed Dominique out, the man approached the station manager, who was just getting out of his car, and fired several shots at him. The gunman then returned to the gate, shot the caretaker and left, explained Pierre.
Speculation is rife about the motive behind the killing.
He, however, did not specify what particular sector might be responsible. Gerard Pierre Charles, leader of the Organisation for the People in Struggle, said that Dominique's professionalism led him to touch on a wide range of taboo subjects. But anyone who listens to Radio Haiti Inter knows that Dominique was always hostile towards a whole range of things which were being done which prevented democracy progressing in this country. In the early 1960s, when virtually all of Haiti's news media were owned and used as propaganda outlets by the government, Dominique founded Radio Haiti Inter as a voice of the people. It was the first outlet to broadcast in Creole, the language of most Haitians.