A lawyer was shot dead on a street in Rio de Janeiro in broad daylight.

A lawyer specializing in civil and commercial law, Rodrigo Mariño Crespo, 42, was shot dead in broad daylight in Rio de Janeiro in the late afternoon of Monday, February 26, as he was leaving the building where he had an office on the street Rua Marechal. Camara, in the center of the Brazilian city.

Rodrigo was accompanied by his nephew, who was not injured and followed a ritual that seemed to be known to the killer: every day at the same time, go to a nearby cafe for a snack, and then return to the office and work. until late.

Witnesses told police that the lawyer calmly left the building shortly after 17:20 local time (20:20 Lisbon time) and was attacked as soon as he took his first steps towards a cafe located a few meters away.

A hooded man got out of a white car parked next to the building, shot Rodrigo several times, then got back into the car and fled.

The criminal first shot twice at the lawyer at very close range, hitting him directly. As Rodrigo lay on the sidewalk, indifferent to the crowds that were circulating on the street that also houses the headquarters of the Rio de Janeiro Public Ministry and the Brazilian Bar Association, the shooter fired at least eight more times. on the victim to make sure he dies.

The crime shocked both many passers-by who witnessed it and those who knew the lawyer, who graduated in 2005 from the Pontifical Catholic University with a degree in commercial law at Fundação Getúlio Vargas and the founder of the law firm Marinho & Lima Advogados, since he only worked in business law , he did not contact clients associated with the criminal world.

But people close to him said the lawyer had recently defended people who were victims of cryptocurrency scams, and that he had recently managed to lock up real wealth from a gang that had defrauded his clients.