Overview

• The court sentenced Vinicius Lima Britto to two years and one month in a semi-open regime and revoked his preventive detention with an order for release unless other legal grounds apply.
• The judgment also stripped him of his public position and set R$100,000 in compensation to Gabriel Renan da Silva Soares’s family.
• Prosecutors had sought conviction for qualified homicide, but the jury reclassified the case to negligent homicide after assessing the absence of intent.
• Security footage showed the 26-year-old, who had taken four packs of soap, being shot without reacting, contradicting the officer’s initial account of legitimate defense.
• The jury trial at the Barra Funda courthouse was presided over by Judge Viviane de Carvalho Singulane, and Britto told the court, “I was imprudent,” acknowledging error.