Overview

• Security footage shows at least six armed men, some with rifles and medical gloves, entering through the parking area around 2:37 a.m., searching for a patient for about seven minutes, then leaving without finding him.
• Civil Police identified one alleged invader as Erlan Oliveira de Araújo, known as Orelha, whose body was discovered days later with a DRACO vest recovered at the scene as investigators pursue other participants.
• Military Police launched operations in the Gouveia community, and the Baixada Fluminense DRE had been monitoring the identified suspect before locating his body.
• The intended target, 31-year-old Lucas Fernandes de Sousa, had been moved from surgery to a ward before the raid, and police have reported information suggesting possible links between him and a paramilitary group.
• Rio’s Municipal Health Secretariat reports 698 service shutdowns at clinics and posts through mid-September due to violence, while the state security secretary says his team is verifying each incident listed by the city.