Pentagon says U.S. team going to Haiti to assess needs

An armed Haitian Army troop guards the entrance of the General Directorate of the police where the suspects of the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise are detained, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 10, 2021. REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo

WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) -A team of U.S. security and law enforcement experts is traveling to Haiti to determine what assistance Washington can provide following the assassination of the Haitian president last week, the Pentagon said on Sunday.

"Today, an inter-agency team largely from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are heading down to Haiti right now to see what we can to do help in the investigative process," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told "Fox News Sunday."