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Overview
- Cabo Flávio dos Santos Duarte Teixeira, 39, was shot while driving near the UPA at km 265 around 8 a.m.
- He had left his shift at the 35th BPM in Itaboraí and was heading to his post at Hospital Municipal Albert Schweitzer.
- The Rio Bonito delegate described a coordinated ambush with shots from both sides and assailants on two motorcycles, possibly aided by a blocking car.
- Emergency teams and federal highway police recorded the scene, and the body was taken to the Medical Legal Institute in Araruama after on-site forensics.
- The Military Police said the killing raises the number of officers murdered this year in Rio de Janeiro state to 50.