Overview
- Police say an argument over the partner giving away avocados culminated in the death of Maria Jucineide in Santarém’s Jutaí neighborhood on Saturday morning.
- According to investigators, she ran into the street, called relatives and pleaded for help before being trapped inside the home and strangled.
- The suspect showed injuries consistent with the victim’s attempts to defend herself, according to the lead investigator.
- Family members told police there was a pattern of psychological and physical violence that had never been formally reported.
- The man initially fled but was taken to a station by relatives, where a duty judge’s preventive detention order was executed, and he remains in custody.