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Haitian college student Pierre Damas Bel, 20, dies by apparent suicide in Ohio after TPS enforcement

9/2/2026

350,000 Haitian nationals face potential removal following the U.S.

Supreme Court's decision clearing the way for the Trump administration to terminate Haiti's Temporary Protected Status, and Pierre Damas Bel, 20, was among them.

Bel, a Haitian-born student in Springfield, Ohio, died Monday after walking into oncoming traffic on Interstate 70, Ohio State Highway Patrol confirmed.

His family says the death was a suicide driven by the shame of an ankle monitor he was required to wear by the Department of Homeland Security.

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