A Miami man was killed in home invasion robbery in Haiti on Friday during a visit to one of the country’s wealthier and safer suburbs.

Ronald Chery, a Haitian-American who worked as a fraud investigator for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was shot to death during the robbery in Petionville.

“He was down there with part of his family and he got caught up in the wrong place at the wrong time,” said Chris Bentley, a spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service.

In June, the state department issued a travel warning to people visiting Haiti after two American citizens were killed while traveling in cars near the country’s main airport.

Parnell Duverger, a friend of Chery and a professor at Broward College in Florida, said a group of men arrived at Chery’s family home and the housekeeper allowed them inside.

Chery tried talking to the men, Duverger said, and was shot. Chery’s mother and brother were tied up and beaten, he added.

“Ronald was well-known in the Haitian community in South Florida,” said Duverger. “Unfortunately these kinds of things occur a lot in Haiti. For a lot of us in the Haitian community, things like this just bring despair.”