Military police officer Henrique Otávio de Oliveira Velozo, accused of killing the jiu-jitsu fighter Leandro Lo became a defendant for triple qualified homicide after the Court accepted a complaint from the Public Ministry.
The PM had preventive detention, according to confirmation by the São Paulo Court of Justice, this Monday (5).
THE CNN contacted the defense of the military police officer, who stated: “the complaint is an accusatory hypothesis that completely disagrees with what was produced in the police investigation and what will be revealed in the judicial investigation”.
“The conclusion of the police investigation took place in a hasty way, since the production of the report of the simulated reproduction of the facts was not even awaited, which, among other things, presented numerous contradictions with the testimonies of the witnesses”, added the note from the defense of the accused.
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Leandro Lo was shot in the head during a show at Clube Sírio, in Sao Paulo, in the early morning of the 7th of August.
According to witnesses, the jiu-jitsu fighter was with five friends at the club, when the policeman, who also practices martial arts, approached and began to provoke the group, taking the drinks that were on the table. Leandro reacted and asked him to leave the place.
According to the lawyer for the fighter’s family, Ivã Siqueira Júnior, during the discussion, the fighter was “cheated” by the PM, which is why he immobilized him with jiu-jitsu techniques. After walking away, the officer pulled out a gun and fired.
Also according to the defender, witnesses reported that the aggressor would have kicked Leandro twice in the head, who was already unconscious on the ground.
The athlete was rescued and taken to Arthur Saboya Municipal Hospital, in Jabaquara, in the south of São Paulo, but he couldn’t resist and was declared brain dead on Sunday morning (7).
Source: CNN Brasil
