[v1r]

At least 21 people were shot dead in a slum on the north side of Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday during a police raid to capture the leaders of a drug-trafficking organization, police and hospital officials said.

The deaths included a woman who was hit in the exchange of gunfire between gang members and police in the Vila Cruzeiro favela, as Rio slums are called. Police said the other dead were suspected gang members who resisted the enforcement operation and opened fire on police with automatic weapons.

Residents said that heavy shooting began in darkness at 4 a.m. in a wooded area next to Vila Cruzeiro, sparking fear and panic in the slum. Gunfire began again in the afternoon.

Seven wounded people were taken to hospital, including a policeman.

The police operation, backed by a helicopter, targeted leaders of Rio's largest organized crime gang, the Comando Vermelho, who, according to police intelligence, were hiding in Vila Cruzeiro.

"It was a very intense confrontation," Colonel Ivan Blaz, spokesman for the militarized police force that led the operation, told reporters. He said the woman could have been hit by a shot fired from inside Vila Cruzeiro.

Police seized assault rifles, pistols and a grenade, as well as cars and motorbikes used by the criminals, he said.

The dead woman was identified as 41-year-old G.C., hit by a stray bullet even though she lived in a neighboring slum called Chatuba. Schools did not open for classes.

Last year, 28 people died in violence in Rio slums, mostly in clashes between drug traffickers and police.

[pokerplay]

Appeared nobody was gonna ghettoway.

[-NocturnalPulse-]

Looks more like a seek and destroy mission rather than a drug seizure/arrest

[foxfantastic]

Was this posted before or am I thinking of a similar police raid ?

[DanteAntonelli]

These cops are really stupid, who are they trying to fool?
The scene conforms to a summary execution massacre not a shootout.

[kellyhound]

Besides the woman that's a big clean up of thugs.

The Civil Police of RJ reported this Thursday (26) that the death toll from the Vila Cruzeiro operation , last Tuesday (24), is 23 , instead of 26.

The Instituto Medico-Legal explained that three of the 26 deaths attributed to the operation actually came from a confrontation between rival drug dealers in Morro do Juramento. With that, the number dropped to 23 dead.

After the shooting ceased, eleven criminals were located injured and 13 rifles, 4 pistols, 10 grenades, as well as large quantities of drugs were seized. The relief of these injured was made to Getúlio Vargas State Hospital.

In the locality known as Vacaria, 16 vehicles (ten motorcycles and six cars) used by escape criminals were seized.

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by v1r ↗

The deaths included a woman who was hit in the exchange of gunfire between gang members and police in the Vila Cruzeiro favela, as Rio slums are called.

Hairdresser G. F. d. C, 41, was shot dead inside her home in Chatuba, the community of the Complex da Penha, in the northern part of Rio, in the early hours of Tuesday (24).

According to the commander of Bope, she was shot in an area where officers were not acting, since the raid was carried out in Vila Cruzeiro.

[foxfantastic]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

Hairdresser G. F. d. C, 41, was shot dead inside her home in Chatuba, the community of the Complex da Penha, in the northern part of Rio, in the early hours of Tuesday (24).

According to the commander of Bope, she was shot in an area where officers were not acting, since the raid was carried out in Vila Cruzeiro.

She wore that shirt good

[Xtatic]

If you’re looking for 3-4 leaders at a party, just go in with guns blazing and odds are good you’ll at least get a couple of them.

[CreepyDeathShrine]

Somehow I doubt they were all barefoot when the shooting began.