Trump posts graphic video of woman being killed with hammer in Florida

President Donald Trump has posted a graphic video of a woman being fatally beaten with a hammer outside a gas station in Fort Myers, Florida.

Rolbert Joachin, a 40-year-old Haitian national, has been charged in connection with the attack outside a gas station on April 3, 2026, according to authorities. He has been charged with second-degree murder and criminal property damage, according to local jail records.

Joachin remains in custody, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lodged a detainer against him as part of separate immigration proceedings.

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Surveillance footage shows the suspect allegedly smashing a vehicle’s windshield before repeatedly striking the victim – a gas station clerk – with a hammer. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The video of the killing was first released on Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which shared a blurred version of the attack on social media.

The DHS said Joachin first entered the United States in August 2022 and was later released into the country under the Biden administration.

The agency added that a federal immigration judge issued a final order of removal against him later that year, but he was subsequently granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a humanitarian program that allows nationals of designated countries to remain in the U.S. temporarily. According to DHS, his TPS status later expired in 2024.

Responding to the attack, Trump wrote on Truth Social: “The video of her brutal slaying is one of the most vicious things you will ever see. This animal was allowed to stay here because the Biden Administration granted him, and all Haitians, ‘Temporary Protective Status,’ a massively abused and fraudulent program which my Administration is working to terminate, but Deranged Liberal District Court Judges are standing in our way.”

He added: “This one killing should be enough for these Radical Judges to STOP impeding my Administration’s Immigration Policies, and allow us to END THIS SCAM ONCE AND FOR ALL.”

Since his 2024 campaign, Trump has made statements criticizing Haitians granted temporary shelter in the U.S., including false claims that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, were “eating the pets of the people that live there.”

This is a developing story. More to follow.