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“You left us real young,� Jean’s stepmother kept repeating as she left the church, sobbing quietly.

On Christmas Eve, Jean was gunned down gathered for the anticipated reopening of the General Hospital in downtown Port-au-Prince. Also killed were fellow journalist Marckendy Natoux, who worked for Voice of America in Haiti, and a Haitian police officer. At least seven other reporters were wounded in Haiti's worst attack on journalists in recent years.

The attack prompted officials to and indefinitely suspend the reopening of the hospital. Police have continued to try to repel attacks from armed gangs in the downtown area around the facility.

Journalists are demanding compensation from the government beyond the money families have received to bury the two reporters killed.

Robest Dimanche, spokesman for the Online Media Collective, a group that defends the rights of online journalists in Haiti, said the government had invited journalists to the hospital’s scheduled reopening but failed to create a safe space.

“We want the state to take responsibility,� Dimanche said. “We continue to work for the victims so they can obtain justice."

Shortly after the attack, Johnson “Izo� André, considered Haiti’s most powerful gang leader and part of the , which has taken control of 85% of the Port-au-Prince capital, posted a video on social media claiming responsibility for the attack. He said he had not authorized the reopening of the hospital, which gangs had previously pillaged.

More than two dozen reporters covered Jean’s funeral on Thursday in one of the world’s most dangerous places to be a journalist. Also attending Jean’s funeral were his girlfriend, Marie Mika Honoré, and his youngest son, 2-year-old Youwenski Jean, also dressed in all white.

“He was very nice, intelligent,� Honoré recalled of Jimmy Jean. “He mostly concentrated on his work.�

She said hours after he left on a motorcycle to cover the hospital reopening, the driver came back to tell her that he had been killed.

“I miss Jimmy a lot,� she said. “We never had any arguments. He took good care of his kids and me.�

The journalists were among the , according to the U.N.

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Associated Press reporter Dánica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico contributed.