Wave of Violence Across Brazil as Crash Driver Held and BH Faction Clash Kills Two

Overview

• São Vicente: driver Ruy Barboza Neto admitted drinking beer, refused a breathalyzer, had intoxication indicated by an IML clinical exam, remains in preventive detention as investigators analyze speed data and cameras, and his defense filed for habeas corpus.
• Surveillance footage captured the rescue after the car plunged into a canal and a surviving passenger told police the driver showed signs of drunkenness and drove at high speed before the crash that killed three women.
• Belo Horizonte: a shootout tied to rival factions in Vila Senhor dos Passos left two dead and six injured, police intercepted suspects using a cloned-plate armored car, and seized weapons, ammunition and drugs as four wounded suspects were taken into custody.
• Recife–Olinda: two cousins were captured as suspects in a triple homicide at a street party, each detained on outstanding warrants for other murders, with a 9 mm pistol, marijuana and crack found at the capture site.
• Elsewhere, authorities reported a double feminicide in Otacílio Costa with the suspect hospitalized, a suspected feminicide in Barra Mansa with the ex-boyfriend sought, a robbery homicide in Duque de Caxias, a car ambush in Jaboatão that left one dead and one injured, and separate shootings in Passos and Curuá.