Two men killed seven people after losing a bet on a snooker match at a bar in Sinop, a town in Brazil’s Midwest, Mato Grosso do Sul, on Carnival Tuesday, the 21st. 12 year old teenager. One of the killers was killed this Thursday the 23rd in a confrontation with police.
According to military police, Edgar Ricardo de Oliveira, 30, and Ezequias Souza Ribeiro, 27, lost a bet of 4,000 reais [cerca de 730 euros] in a bar and were the target of jokes from the winners and the owners of the establishment. Enraged, they returned armed a few moments later.
One of them cornered nine patrons from the bar, facing the wall, at gunpoint with a 380 pistol. The other shot seven of them with a 12 caliber shotgun. Two of the patrons managed to escape alive. escape. After the massacre, the killers took the money from the bet and fled in a car. The action was captured on site by security cameras.
Sinop police then set up a task force that found the vehicle, one of the weapons and one of the criminals in a wooded area 15 km from the bar, near the city’s airport. Ezequias Souza Ribeiro was killed in the gunfight with the authorities. Edgar Ricardo de Oliveira is still on the run, but his lawyer says he intends to turn himself in to authorities.
Five adult men and a pre-teen, Larissa Frazão, died on the spot, another adult died in hospital where he was admitted in serious condition. Victims include the bet winners, the bar owner and some spectators at the match.
Flávio Dino, justice minister in the Lula da Silva government, attributed the crime to former President Jair Bolsonaro’s gun policy. “Seven more brutal murders. Another tragic result of the irresponsible gun policy that led to the proliferation of ‘shooting clubs’, supposedly intended for ‘good people’, as the far right claims,” the minister wrote on social networks.
Source: DN
