Police Corporal Shot Dead While Teaching Jiu-Jitsu Class in Várzea Grande

Overview

• The shooting took place on Tuesday, August 4, when cabo Renato Oliveira Aragão was fired on while giving a jiu-jitsu class at a CRAS social project in the Cristo Rei neighborhood and later died at the Várzea Grande emergency hospital.
• Students at the class subdued the attacker, identified as 33-year-old Jonathan Vieira dos Santos, who was arrested in flagrante and taken to a Centro Integrado de Segurança e Cidadania before his detention was maintained in an audiência de custódia.
• Police Civil investigators flagged a boletim de ocorrência filed by the suspect months earlier that alleges a two-year extramarital relationship between his wife and the victim and say that filing is a key piece in a premeditation line of inquiry.
• Witness statements and records show the suspect contacted the victim’s partner days before the killing and visited the class location shortly before the attack, while the victim’s partner confirmed the alleged affair and the suspect’s wife has not yet been located to give testimony.
• The killing has heightened local concern because it happened during community work at a CRAS project, the military command publicly lamented the loss, and authorities say the inquiry will focus next on gathering more testimony and documentary evidence to decide charges.