Brazil Sees Deadly Spate of Attacks and Police Shootings as Probes Advance

Overview

• Following Saturday’s pre-dawn shootout after a pharmacy robbery in Sorocaba, a 28-year-old military policeman died and three suspects were killed, with the state public security office opening an Inquérito Policial Militar, an internal military police inquiry, alongside a Civil Police investigation.
• In São Paulo’s Casa Verde district on Thursday night, an off-duty policewoman shot two men who tried to rob her, and both suspects later died as the case was logged as attempted robbery and death from police intervention, with motorcycles and guns seized for forensics.
• In Caxias do Sul on Thursday, police say a 49-year-old driver survived gunfire from her 57-year-old ex-partner despite a protective order, and hours later officers found the suspect dead in a rural area as investigators work to determine how he died.
• In Tapurah, a report Saturday detailed the fatal stabbing of Julia Vitória do Prado da Silva, 20, with two men arrested after one, 75, confessed and pointed officers to a hidden crowbar and knife, as investigators cited signs the body was about to be moved and booked the case as feminicide.
• In Teresina, a new forensic report matched distinctive features of a seized car to video of a December 2025 killing of a homeless man, reinforcing charges against three merchants who remain under electronic monitoring and nightly home curfew as the court adds witnesses before the next phase.