Ex-Partner Confesses in Salvador Double Killing as Two Freed for Christmas Are Shot Dead in Laje

Overview

• Lívia Denise Dias de Souza, 23, and Arthur Cesar Santos de Santana, 25, were shot in front of a church on Avenida ACM in Salvador’s Brotas neighborhood after trying to take shelter.
• Police identified the detained suspect as 31-year-old Vinícius Santos de Jesus, described by relatives as Lívia’s former partner, who confessed after being captured minutes later at a psychiatric center.
• Officers seized a revolver, ammunition, a knife, a phone and a transit card, and the DHPP booked the suspect in flagrante on feminicide and homicide charges.
• In a separate case in Laje’s Riacho da Lama, two men on temporary Christmas release from the Conjunto Penal de Valença were fatally ambushed by assailants on a motorcycle.
• One victim was identified as Darlan Paixão Santos, the attackers fled toward Mutuípe without arrest, and preliminary police information indicates both victims had criminal records.