06/08/2023 – A 13-year-old teenager was shot dead during a Military Police operation in Cidade de Deus, West Zone. According to residents, the police would have entered the community shooting and, would have altered the crime scene. According to the police officers involved in the incident, teams were carrying out policing when two men on a motorcycle shot at them. After confrontation, a teenager was found hit.
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07/08/2023 – A 60-year-old woman was shot at home in Anil, Jacarepaguá, West Zone. She was in her apartment room, which is on the 9th floor, when a shot went through the window and hit her leg.
07/08/2023 – Former councilor Zico Bacana and his brother were killed in a shooting in Guadalupe, Zona Norte. According to witnesses, a car drove by with armed men shooting at the bakery where they were on Rua Eneas Martins. In addition to Zico Bacana and his brother, the police confirmed that a third person was killed, he was passing by and ended up being shot. Zico Bacana was military police officer, former councilor, was heard in the Marielle Franco case and cited in investigations as head of a militia.
08/08/2023 – Shortly before a match between Fluminense and Associación Atlética Argentinos Juniors, in Maracanã, Argentine and Fluminense fans got involved in acts of violence in Copacabana. According to reports, the aggressions would have started after the Argentines made racist provocations against the Brazilians. The confusion started on the beach promenade and continued in other areas of the neighborhood.
08/08/2023 – A delivery man was arrested for robbery while preparing to work at a pharmacy in Tanque, West Zone. The 27-year-old man and another criminal used a motorcycle with signs of tampering on the plates to commit the crime.
09/08/2023 – Three men were arrested for robbery after a police chase on Linha Amarela, near the Engenho de Dentro neighborhood, North Zone. Inside the car, police officers found a pistol, two pistol simulacrum, a katana sword and two knives. Backpacks, cell phones and other belongings were also in the vehicle. They are suspected of having stabbed a victim of a robbery in Vargem Grande, West Zone.
09/08/2023 – Military police arrested a man who is a member of the largest militia in the state, which isled by Luís Antônio da Silva Braga, Zinho. He is known as DVD and would be the current head of the Rodo community in Santa Cruz. He was arrested in a car with a rifle and ammunition.
09/08/2023 – A police officer reacted to a robbery and injured one of the two criminals in Barra da Tijuca, West Zone. According to the Military Police, two men on a motorcycle stole the watch of a man who was in a vehicle on Avenue Sobral Pinto. In sequence, the duo would have tried to steal a car on the same road. At this moment, a police officer reacted by shooting.
10/08/2023 – Police officers from the Narcotics Repression Police Station (DRE) arrested a criminal known as Pharaoh. He would be responsible for drug trafficking in the community of Kelson’s, North Zone. Another criminal was also arrested. According to the police, officers saw a drug sales stand, when they saw the police, the traffickers fled. However, two were arrested.
