Marie-Vernay Bonay is 73 years old and has spent most of her life in the

Marta San neighborhood of Porto Prince in Haiti. But in early June, the violence

there just became too much.

I was at my daughter's house and we had shots and we watched how to church to pray.

Then we were forced to leave the shrine. Bonay told MPR that gang members were

looting, shooting and taking whatever they wanted as they went street by street

throughout her entire neighborhood and local police officers were nowhere to be

found.

From the beginning people have been dying, people have been shot, nobody says no,

we'll just kept canting you and now the situation is getting worse.

That was the last night Bonay spent at her own house. She and six members of her

family left. They're now staying with a friend in one bedroom on the other

side of town. Bonay's son, Junior Millian, wanted to go back to Marta San to get

more of their belongings.

So when we tried to get back, there was a lot of shooting and they say they

shouldn't be people if you come in hours to take your thing, they will shoot

on you.

The United Nations says that over the last six weeks, nearly 15,000 people have

been forced from their homes in Porto Prince. This surge of violence in the

country comes on the heels of the assassination of Hades president, Jovenel

Moise. Critics of the former president say he allowed these gangs to take

over some of the most destitute areas of the capital.

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