Overview
- Security video shows two men on a motorcycle stopping beside the procession outside Baependi’s main church and firing at close range on February 27.
- The victim, identified as 27-year-old Amanda de Almeida Arantes of Rio de Janeiro, had traveled to the town for her mother’s funeral.
- Doctors treated three gunshot wounds, including one that struck near the spinal column and lodged in the diaphragm, and she remains in intensive care in Varginha with a reported stable condition.
- Forensic teams recovered nine spent .380-caliber casings and one intact round, and seized a motorcycle, two helmets, and a black jacket linked to the attackers.
- Police detained one man recognized from the motorcycle and are still searching for a second suspect as they examine possible motives and have not yet obtained a coherent statement from the victim.