[Susan]

This just in.....


Google translate:

[/Military police killed a man who kept a woman hostage on the afternoon of Friday (4) in front of Se Cathedral in the center of São Paulo, according to the corporation. A homeless person who tried to help the victim also died


The SPTV received images delivered by a police officer at the scene showing the deaths.

The case occurred at about 14h10 in the cathedral stairs in the Cathedral Square. According to the PM, the man threatened the woman with a gun. She told G1 that was addressed within the church, while praying, and believes that man fleeing police. They went out together from the cathedral.

The images show the man with the woman at the top of the stairs. Then a homeless man approached from behind and advanced against the criminal who embraced hostage. He managed to push the suspect, who grabs the gun and shoots the homeless. Then you can hear the shots of the police and the criminal falls dead.

The woman held hostage said he was injured in the eye and head "from the blow" - she was assaulted by the criminal. A man who sold thirds opposite the cathedral was hit in the arm by a glancing shot. He did not receive medical attention


The Emerson Massera major, spokesman for the PM says that the criminal was REDACTED, and had already done time in 22 years. He had passages in the theft by police, theft, damage, personal injury, traffic and escape from jail. The homeless man was REDACTED. The case will be registered in the 1st Police District, in the Cathedral.

According Massera, it will be the expertise to say if the homeless person was hit by shots of the military police, but he considers that remote possibility. "The feeling that we have looking at the pictures is that whoever hits the homeless is the bad guy. The shooting noise, inclusive, is different, 38 and paragraph 40, "he said.




He says that you can see that, after receiving the shots, the man remains standing for a while, another sign that did not receive police gunfire. "If he took point shot 40 [weapons used by PM] would fall in time."

Massera said that given the risk of death from other people, more than two officers fired at the man who held the woman hostage. He said he was able to hear at least 13 shots, but did not rule out the possibility of being more. "The police shot at the same time because there is risk of death," he said.

According Massera, the police had surrounded the place and was negotiating with the man to release the hostage, but the homeless managed to break through the siege. "He had a whole apparatus on site, which was isolated," he said.

Witness
Sales supervisor REDACTED was at lunch time and witnessed the crime. He told the woman managed to run away when the homeless are played against the suspect. She took shelter behind a pillar of the cathedral. The woman had head injuries because, according to the witness, took rifle butts. "It looked like movie scene," said.

Two guns were in the stairwell, next to the bodies at around 16h10. The experts concluded the work and the bodies were taken to 17:30. Both the criminal and the homeless were known in the Cathedral area, witnesses heard by the G1. According to reports, REDACTED demanded money surrounding the square and slept in a shelter.

In a statement, the priest , regrets the deaths and says "the sad event tells the tragic way of how violence is no solution to solve conflict situations, whatever they may be." He states that "in the cathedral, pray for the souls of those who lose their lives in the tragedies and violence of every day" and invites everyone to "pray to God for peace to be restored in our city and scenes that do not come up repeat. "

[K53]

Good guys win

[Susan]

video posted here

http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...brazil-158667/

[BadmouthBetty]

Look at that head frothy goodness pouring from his nose!

[Oswald2001]

The Good Samaritan was probably hit by several direct rounds and several ricochets all from the cops.


Sad that the citizen died, but God Bless him for his actions in saving that woman.

[kellyhound]

guess the homeless guy had nothing to lose and went for it.

[darkredspyder]

Random screwdriver in picture four. Did it bounce out of his pocket upon being blown away?

[Susan]

that's the homeless guy I think so maybe he had it in his hand, trying to stab the hostage taker??

[djrizzz]

mouth open

[ludokressh]

Kind of a shame for the homeless guy, it looked like he was alright, until I watched the close up vid. I guess the adrenaline and shock kept him on his feet for a little while.