The
night before presidential elections in Haiti, Fugees co-founder Wyclef
Jean, 41, was treated and released from a hospital for a gunshot wound
to the hand, according to his spokesperson. Jean was running for
president last year, amid controversy, until Haiti's board of elections disqualified him.
Jean's brother, Samuel, confirmed the shooting. Joe Mignon, an officer
with Jean's Yele Foundation, told the Associated Press that Jean was
wounded late Saturday night in Delmas, a city east of Port-au-Prince.
According to WENN
news, the recording artist was with rapper Busta Rhymes and music exec
Jimmy Rosemund when the car they were in was "peppered with bullets."
Cindy Tanenbaum, Jean's publicist, told CNN, "He's doing well."
Jean has been in his homeland campaigning for popular musician Michel
Martelly as he runs for the nation's highest office (Martelly's
opponent is a former first lady, Mirlande Manigat). Ballots are cast
today, with results made public by April 16.
The political process in Haiti has been particularly chaotic since the 7.0 earthquake of January 2010. The Red Cross estimated that three million Haitians were affected by the disaster.
Back in 2008, Wyclef recorded a song called 'If I Was President,' which
includes lyrics that cast him as a target of political violence: "If I
was president / I'd get elected on Friday / Assassinated on Saturday /
And buried on Sunday."
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