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Overview
- Daniel Ferreira do Nascimento left his mother’s home in Paraguaçu Paulista carrying only a black backpack and has not been seen since 19 June.
- The family filed a missing-person report on July 27 and made a fresh public appeal for information on his 28th birthday.
- An eyewitness said they saw a man matching Daniel’s description walking along the highway between Paraguaçu Paulista and Assis but that sighting remains unconfirmed because concessionaire CCTV has not been released.
- Daniel is a former Tokyo 2021 Olympian who set the South American marathon record in Seoul 2022 and was suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit in May 2025 for five years, a setback followed by reported mental-health struggles and a return to live and work with his mother.
- Police continue follow-up inquiries and the family asks anyone with information to contact Polícia Civil at 197 or Polícia Militar at 190 while they await the road operator’s footage that could clarify his movements.