Police Arrest Suspect in Stoning Death of 19-Year-Old Delivery Worker in São Luís

Overview

• Carlos Adriano Serra Belém, 24, was detained on Monday in connection with the killing of Eryk Ryan Rego, 19.
• Investigators say three additional participants are suspected and tied to a criminal faction.
• Rego was attacked with stones on Sunday in the Cidade Olímpica neighborhood while on his first delivery shift.
• Police report the assailants took the victim’s cellphone during the confrontation, and his motorcycle was found at the scene registered to his mother.
• The SHPP is leading the homicide probe, and officers say the arrested man was on conditional release and caught carrying a pouch of drugs.