Deadly Weekend Across Brazil Sees Alphaville Double Killing and Rapid Police Arrests

Overview

• In Barueri’s Alphaville district, physician Carlos Alberto Azevedo Silva Filho was arrested at the scene after two colleagues, Luís Roberto Pellegrini Gomes, 43, and Vinicius dos Santos Oliveira, 35, were shot dead outside a restaurant.
• Police seized a 9 mm pistol, spent casings, documents, a bag and about R$16,000 from the Alphaville suspect, who holds a CAC registration but lacked authorization to carry the weapon, as investigators examine a business dispute over hospital-management contracts.
• In the Federal District, a 14-year-old girl was found dead with injuries consistent with sexual violence in Planaltina, and a 28-year-old man was arrested in flagrante on suspicion of feminicide while on home detention for prior offenses.
• In Marapanim (Pará), Nadine de Brito Pinheiro was stabbed to death and her partner, Manoel Santana de Sousa Neto, was arrested hours later as police investigate the case as feminicide.
• In Mato Grosso, a 14-year-old boy was killed in Cáceres with two teens among those detained amid indications of faction pressure, and in Sorriso, three people were arrested after a bar execution in which the alleged shooter confessed to a revenge motive and others were held over an arson at the victim’s residence.