A fan of American singer Taylor Swift, the second to die since Friday, was killed early this Sunday morning in Rio de Janeiro by longtime criminals who were released by a judge a few hours ago. On Friday evening, on a day when Rio de Janeiro recorded one of the highest temperatures in its history, another fan, Ana Clara Benevides Machado, 23, who lived and studied psychology in the city of Rondonopolis, in the state, died. Mato Grosso. during the singer’s first performance in this city, apparently due to dehydration.
The new victim, 25-year-old Gabriel Mongenot Santana Milhomem Santos, traveled from the state of Minas Gerais, where he lived, to Rio de Janeiro to watch Taylor Swift perform on Sunday night. The young man was stabbed to death around three in the morning and six o’clock this Sunday in Lisbon by three assailants who surprised him while he was walking, like many other people, along the famous promenade of Copacabana beach, where Gabriel, as a crowd of locals and tourists tried resist the stifling heat that was felt even at night.
Police acted quickly, alerting people in the crowded bars along the promenade and on the beach, and managed to arrest two of the three killers within minutes. The man responsible for the stabbing, identified by those arrested as Jonathan Batista Barbosa, managed to escape and is being sought by police.
Jonathan and one of his accomplices were already arrested last Friday during a robbery of a store in Copacabana. They remained in the cell for only a few hours, until noon the next day, Saturday, when they were presented to Judge Prissile Macuco Ferreira, who granted them freedom despite being caught red-handed and having numerous crimes. that appear on their records, including robberies, drug dealing and at least one murder.