A millionaire from Sao Paulo confuses the police with robbers and starts a shootout, resulting in the death of three mansion owners. A civilian police officer and a millionaire’s security guard were also killed.

A hasty assessment by Sao Paulo millionaire businessman Rogerio Saladino, 56, who mistook the police for robbers, led to a shootout in which he, the officer and the security guard himself ended up dead. The shooting took place near the luxurious Saladino mansion, in the Jardim America district, one of the most noble in this Brazilian city.

Two members of the Civil (Judicial) Police, investigating a theft that had occurred the previous day on the street where a businessman lived, went to his home to try to obtain CCTV images that could help clarify the crime. According to family members who dined with Rogerio Saladino at the mansion, the businessman imagined that the two identified agents were robbers disguised as police officers who were going to try to invade the mansion, and went outside. the garage of a house facing the street, with a pistol already firing in his hand and another pistol on his belt.

Agent Milena Estevam, 39, was shot several times and died at the scene. Her colleague responded and shot Saladino, who was fatally shot in the chest.

The mansion security guard, seeing how his boss was shot, tried to grab the gun that the businessman had on his belt, but the agent was faster and shot first, killing the employee as well. The deaths caused great excitement in São Paulo, both in business circles, where Rogerio Saladino commanded a network of clinical analysis and imaging laboratories, and in police circles, since Milena was a very well-known operative due to the successes she had achieved in murder investigations. and robberies, robberies resulting in the death of the victim.

The Secretariat of Public Security of São Paulo, SSP-SP, avoided criticism of the action of the businessman, a fan of firearms, but at the wake and funeral of agent Milena, colleagues did not hide their anger at the businessman who left home already shooting at police officers with certificates, without asking or , at least without first calling the police department to confirm whether the pair of agents actually belong to the corporation. The family of Rogerio Saladino issued a statement asking for the privacy of the businessman and his family members to be respected after police told the press that the millionaire had already been convicted of murder years ago, bodily harm and environmental crime.