Brazil Opens Probes and Makes Arrests After Deadly Police Shooting, Shootout and Road Crashes

Overview

• After a checkpoint pursuit in Rio Verde, the PRF confirmed that driver Erenilson Batista de Oliveira died from a police gunshot and said the internal affairs unit opened an inquiry and removed the involved officers from operational duty.
• In Rio de Janeiro, 28-year-old Bárbara Elisa Yabeta Borges died after being shot inside an app-based car during a Linha Amarela shootout linked by police to rival criminals, with a rifle seized and the case under investigation.
• Cascavel police arrested a 41-year-old driver and booked him for homicide with dolo eventual after video showed an illegal overtaking at high speed that sent his car out of control and killed a 71-year-old pedestrian.
• In Araçatuba, a prosecutor recommended homicide doloso charges against retired judge Fernando Augusto Rodrigues Júnior and a woman, citing evidence he drove drunk with her on his lap and failed to brake before fatally striking cyclist Thais.
• The PRF reported a Jeep Renegade entering the opposite lane on BR-116 in São Francisco do Glória, causing a four-vehicle crash that killed a 34-year-old motorcyclist, while separate probes continue into a Juiz de Fora shooting death and an intoxication-related arrest after a wheelchair user was hit in Buritis; two were also injured by a runaway truck in Campinas.