The family drama between a couple in the process of separation, with violence and risk to the life of the ex-wife, ended this Sunday with the death of a 45-year-old man, shot dead by a military police sniper in an apartment in Pinheiros. , a prestigious area in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. The attacker’s ex-wife was not seriously injured, but had to be hospitalized because she was in shock.
The man had his ex-wife under control and at knifepoint when police arrived, alerted by neighbors who heard her cries for help when at one point he managed to free himself and run out onto the balcony of the sixth-floor apartment. . , ask for help.
Shortly after 8:45 a.m. local time (11:45 a.m. in Lisbon), a strong military police force entered the building, positioning itself in the hallway in front of the couple’s apartment and in other visible areas. The building on Mateus Grow Street was surrounded.
Negotiators from the GATE Special Tactics Team, which specializes in hostage cases, were called in and spent about 40 minutes trying to convince the attacker to release his ex-wife, but in vain. The man, extremely upset, constantly threatened to kill his ex-wife, but never stabbed her.
However, at a certain point, the attacker’s mental state deteriorated further, and he, shouting that neither he nor she would come out of this situation alive, began to use a knife to stab himself, after which the police decided to act properly. to a high risk of killing the victim.
A sniper positioned at a strategic point nearby where he could see the couple fired and the man fell dead, his victim being rescued seconds later, completely upset by everything he had just experienced.
The couple’s son, a child who had desperately asked his father not to abuse his mother before police arrived, managed to leave the apartment and was helped by neighbors who took care of him. As of Sunday afternoon, the SSP-SP, the Sao Paulo state Secretariat of Public Security, had yet to release further information about the operation or the reasons that led the man shot by a sniper to carry out such an act.
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
I’m Dave Martin, and I’m an experienced journalist working in the news industry. As a part of my work, I write for 24 News Reporters, covering mostly sports-related topics. With more than 5 years of experience as a journalist, I have written numerous articles on various topics to provide accurate information to readers.