The families of two Trinidadian men who were killed in a U.S. strike on their vessel on Oct. 14, 2025, filed a lawsuit against the United States in a Massachusetts court on Tuesday.
Chad Joseph, 26, and Rishi Samaroo, 41, were traveling from Venezuela to their home country of Trinidad, when the U.S. military carried out a missile strike on their boat, killing them and the other four people on board, according to the lawsuit, which was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of Joseph’s mother and Samaroo’s sister.
The lawsuit argues that the strikes that killed them violated international human rights norms against extrajudicial killing and amounted to murder. The Trump administration alleged that the
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