Overview

• Security footage shows Pacheco being approached during a street robbery and struck with a punch that knocked him to the ground, after which his phone, wallet and watch were taken.
• São Paulo’s public security department says a preliminary report attributes the death to traumatic cranioencephalic injury from his head hitting the sidewalk on Rua Itambé.
• Three suspects — Lucas Brás dos Santos, 27, Ana Paula Teixeira Pinto de Jesus, 45, and José Lucas Domingo Alves, 23 — were arrested, confessed participation and are accused of latrocínio.
• Pacheco was found unconscious, taken to Santa Casa and died around 1:40 a.m.; without documents, he was identified 36 hours later by fingerprints.
• Investigators say Brás had a prior 2023 robbery conviction and a 5-year-4-month sentence issued in January 2025 that he had not begun to serve, and they are still working to recover the stolen items and complete the case file.