Three Arrested After Ambush Kills 7-Year-Old in Goiás as Fourth Suspect Dies in Police Encounter

Overview

• The shooting happened on Friday in Campinorte, where three suspects were taken into custody without bail and a fourth was shot during an approach and died after being taken to a hospital.
• Investigators report the intended target was the boy’s stepfather, a hamburger shop owner who was wounded after being lured to a secluded location by a bogus order.
• In Quintana, São Paulo state, police arrested suspects accused of murdering and dismembering a man and moving body parts in a baby stroller, with CCTV and luminol tests supporting the case.
• In Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, a 42-year-old motorcyclist was chased by men in a car, run over and shot dead, and the suspected vehicle was later found abandoned and believed to be stolen.
• Authorities also detailed separate domestic cases: an ex-husband in Jacinto confessed to killing Jairo Gonçalves Cascalho, a son in Belo Horizonte called emergency services after fatally stabbing his mother, an adolescent in Lucianópolis was detained over her brother’s death, and police in São Miguel sent a juvenile case to court after finding long-term abuse.