Two Women Fatally Stabbed in São Paulo State as Suspects Are Arrested in Separate Domestic Cases

Overview

• In Praia Grande, police detained the victim’s 21-year-old daughter and her 24-year-old partner after neighbor cameras recorded a dispute preceding the stabbing.
• The daughter told investigators she does not remember the stabbing or whether she acted in self-defense, and the knife was seized for forensic analysis.
• The Praia Grande case was registered as homicide at the Central de Polícia Judiciária following a Christmas Eve response by military police and Samu.
• In Ribeirão Preto, Daniela Messias Trindade Ferreira was killed during a quarrel at home, and her husband, Carlos Henrique Fermino Lopes, 37, was arrested in flagrante and taken to the Women’s Police Station.
• According to the DDM, a six-year-old witnessed the attack and tried to intervene before an 18-year-old sibling interrupted the assault, while police recovered the knife, sent the body to the IML, and prepared custody proceedings.