Police suspect shots that killed a misdemeanor were fired at a...

RIO – Homicide police officers at the scene of the murder of misdemeanor Fernando Iggnácio, shot at earlier this Tuesday afternoon, suspect that the shots were fired from a vacant lot next to the air taxi company he landed at. helicopter in Recreio. The land is surrounded by a railing, but a loose plate at the gate leads investigators to believe that this is where the attacker entered. Agents believe Iggnácio was shot by someone who was positioned about 5 meters from the target, and who had a large caliber weapon.

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“This morning, just a few hours before the shots, that plate was in place, intact. There were many shots,” said an official who takes care of the land, which is approximately 15,000 square meters.

There is also the suspicion that the perpetrator of the shots was positioned behind a wall approximately 1.70m high. “From the noise, it was rifle shots,” said one witness. Police officers are currently on the ground trying to pick up clues.

The offender’s body was removed at around 4:15 pm and taken to the Legal Medical Institute. Two women, one of them a sister of Fernando Iggnácio, arrived at the site.

Family dispute

Castor Gonçalves de Andrade e Silva became the master of contravention in Rio in the 1970s and even expanded his domains to the Northeast. He died of a heart attack in April 1997, starting a family war for succession. Still in life, Castor had chosen Rogério, his nephew, to lead the misdemeanor in the West Zone and other areas of the state. Castor’s son Paulinho did not agree and started a battle with his cousin. In 1998, Paulinho and a security guard were murdered in Barra. Castor’s son-in-law, Fernando Iggnácio Miranda, took the place in the dispute with Rogério.

According to police investigations, from the mid-1990s, Fernando Iggnácio started to control Adult Fifty, a company that operated slot machines throughout the West Zone. In 1998, Rogério would have founded Oeste Rio. Rogério himself was the victim of an assassination attempt in 2001. In April 2010, another attack: Rogério’s son, 17, died in an attack in Barra. Instead of the father, it was the boy who drove a car in which a bomb was placed. According to an investigation by the Federal Police, the offenders César Andrade de Lima Souto and Fernando Andrade de Lima Souto were involved in the crime.