Deadly Two-Day Wave Across Brazil Spurs Probes Into Inheritance Plot, Executions, Domestic Killings

Overview

• In Caruaru (PE), a man confessed to killing 24-year-old Allani Rayanne Santos, police say her mother is in preventive custody as the suspected mastermind over an inheritance dispute, and sexological and tanatoscopic exams are awaited to confirm possible sexual violence.
• Three men were shot dead at a gas station in Juazeiro do Norte (CE) in an attack with execution characteristics, and authorities are examining potential ties to criminal organizations.
• In Piraju (SP), a military police officer fatally stabbed his wife, an attorney, and her father before being shot by responding officers; all three died at the hospital and the case is being investigated as feminicide and homicide.
• Police registered multiple intervention-related deaths in São Paulo state, including a motorist killed after allegedly firing during a traffic stop in Votorantim, a suspect shot by Baep officers in São José do Rio Preto, and a man killed in a confrontation with municipal guards in Cabreúva.
• Other key actions include the arrest of a suspect in Dourados (MS) after a fatal stabbing, the detention of a man in Barreiras (BA) on suspicion of killing his ex-partner, and the apprehension of an adolescent linked to the kidnapping and dismemberment of Williams Nogueira after an invasion of a candomblé terreiro in Simões Filho (BA).