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Brazil Holiday Violence: Mass-Shooting Suspect Caught as Separate Killings and Tourist Assaults Spur Arrests

Tip-offs plus surveillance footage drove rapid arrests, with new investigations launched during the late-December surge.

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Overview

  • Police in Prudentópolis (PR) arrested a 28-year-old suspected of opening fire on a home that held 11 people, leaving six wounded and a nine-month-old dead, and they continue to search for a second participant as seized electronics undergo forensic analysis.
  • In Moreno (PE), fuel entrepreneur Alexandrino Ferreira Júnior was executed at the entrance to a rural property, and a 26-year-old suspect was detained in flagrante and remains under guard in a hospital as the homicide probe proceeds.
  • A tourist couple from Mato Grosso reported being beaten on Porto de Galinhas beach after a dispute over chair fees, received medical care, and now face an ongoing Civil Police inquiry opened as a bodily-injury case to identify all attackers.
  • Two 22-year-old suspects linked to a Rio-based criminal group died after exchanging gunfire with Ceará’s Military Police in São João do Jaguaribe, with officers seizing three firearms, 121 rounds, narcotics and two motorcycles.
  • Investigators probing an alleged sequestro relâmpago tied to a former official in Piauí recovered two guns and stolen items, arrested a suspect, and moved to block roughly R$ 20,000 traced between victims’ accounts.