Suspects in the murder of three doctors in Rio de Janeiro found riddled with bullets

In a new manifestation of the barbarity that has engulfed the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, police early this Friday morning found four bodies of criminals involved in the murder the previous morning of three doctors from Sao Paulo in front of a hotel where they were going to attend an international orthopedic congress. The bullet-riddled bodies were found inside two cars, deliberately abandoned in places where they could be easily found on busy roads in the city’s west, an area where the massacre of doctors also took place.

In one of the cars abandoned on Avenida Tenente Coronel Muñiz de Almeida, in the Gardenia Azul district, the body of Philip Motta Pereira, known as “CR7” or “Lesk” and considered one of the leaders of the drug trade, was found. region was found in the city and identified as the mastermind of the brutal attack on orthopedic surgeons in Sao Paulo, who were gunned down early Thursday morning by dozens of shots in a bar in front of the Windsor Hotel, in Barra da Tijuca, where a medical conference was taking place. Another dead criminal identified as a participant in the massacre of doctors was Ryan Nunez de Almeida, the right-hand man of “Leska”, found with two other alleged criminals in an abandoned car on Rua Abraan Jabour, near the Rio Centro convention center. also in the western zone of the capital Rio de Janeiro.

According to Rio de Janeiro police, the two criminals whose bodies were found next to Ryan’s body were not directly involved in the attack on the doctors, or at least were not detected by CCTV cameras at a kiosk on the beach opposite the hotel, but they, may have provided planning or support for the four assassins. Philip and Ryan were part of a group of drug traffickers known as the “Equipa Sombra”, a sort of elite group associated with the Comando Vermelho faction that specialized in special activities such as executing rivals and invading territories controlled by other criminal groups.