Overview

• The shooting occurred Friday morning inside a fitness facility on Rua 1 in the Rocinha community in Rio’s South Zone.
• UPP Rocinha officers and Military Police responded to the call and confirmed the man’s death at the scene.
• The victim had not been identified as of the latest reports released on Friday.
• The shooter fled immediately after the attack, and no motive has been disclosed in initial accounts.
• The Delegacia de Homicídios da Capital assumed the investigation and reports active efforts to establish who carried out the crime and why.