Overview
- Fernando posted a video after leaving the hospital, recounting a laser sight pointed at their car, a blown tire, a wrong turn into a dead-end street, and a barrage of gunfire in the dark.
- The pair fled despite injuries and reached a fuel station in Queluz on the Presidente Dutra highway, where other motorists and federal highway police helped get them to emergency care.
- Doctors treated Fernando for an open leg fracture and a projectile fragment that reached his heart, requiring emergency orthopedic and cardiac surgeries; he is now home and in physiotherapy.
- The case was registered in Queluz because the victims sought help there, the vehicle was seized for forensic analysis, and the Polícia Civil do Rio de Janeiro is leading the investigation.
- Fernando rejected online theories suggesting a targeted hit or a link to his Halloween costume, saying the car took more than 13 shots and was declared a total loss.