Police Hunt Stepmother Suspect in Sepetiba Killing After Lawyers Say She Won’t Surrender
Investigators say she arranged the shooting to take custody of the victim’s four-year-old daughter.
Overview
- Civil Police say Gabrielle Cristine Pinheiro Rosário is a fugitive under an open arrest warrant after her lawyers told investigators she will not turn herself in, and the Homicide Division is seeking preventive detention.
- Motorcycle driver Erick Santos Maria and alleged gunman Davi de Souza Malto were arrested earlier this week and confessed at the Homicide Division.
- Police allege Rosário offered R$20,000 to hire the attackers and targeted Laís de Oliveira Gomes Pereira over a custody dispute.
- Friends and relatives described behavior they viewed as obsessive and possessive toward the child, citing threats, an attempt to take the girl from school without authorization, and demands to be called “mother.”
- Detectives are searching addresses linked to the suspect, analyzing seized phones for evidence and possible fraud offenses, and still seeking the weapon used, while the child’s father denies involvement.