Violent Weekend Across Brazil as Alphaville Doctors' Killings Drive Major Probes

Overview

• Police say physician Carlos Alberto Azevedo Silva Filho was arrested in flagrante after fatally shooting colleagues Luis Roberto Pellegrini Gomes and Vinicius dos Santos Oliveira outside a Barueri restaurant; he is a registered CAC without a carry license, and detectives are examining possible hospital-contract disputes and how he accessed the 9 mm pistol reportedly handed to him in a bag.
• Three men were detained in Araguari, Minas Gerais, after one confessed and led officers to the body of bricklayer Lazaro Martins de Paula, 65, with the case treated as latrocinio and the victim’s motorcycle recovered near a rural property.
• A 58-year-old who tried to stop a chain theft in Guarapari was shot three times and remains in intensive care, as homicide detectives classify the case as attempted murder and withhold further details to protect the inquiry.
• In Marapanim (PA), police arrested Manoel Santana de Sousa Neto hours after the stabbing death of his partner, Nadine de Brito Pinheiro, in a case opened as femicide tied to domestic violence.
• Other reported attacks included a revenge-motivated bar shooting in Sorriso (MT) with a confessed gunman and two arson suspects detained, a double stabbing homicide of a singer and her friend in Sorocaba with the ex-partner arrested, and multiple investigations relying on surveillance footage and rapid tactical responses.