A suspect was arrested in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, on Sunday afternoon (3), accused of having shot bassist Rinaldo Amaral, known as Mingau, from the band Ultraje a Rigor in the head.
According to the Civil Police, he had a .40 pistol, in addition to drugs, two chargers and a burst kit. At the crime scene, a case and projectile of the same caliber as the seized weapon were recovered.
Police are seeking to locate three other suspects in the crime. A friend of Porridge must be heard again at the police station.
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A CNN Chief Marcello Russo, head of the Paraty police station, reported that the crime scene is “known as a point of purchase and sale of illicit drugs dominated by the criminal faction called the Red Command”.
“We are working with several investigative hypotheses. One of them said that traffickers would have fired shots that hit Porridge,” he added.
Russo stated that an investigation of the location was requested, as well as the seizure of Mingau’s car for criminal investigation.
“We are waiting for collaborators with information, intelligence work, local cameras, possible cell phone footage. Anyone who can help us, we will guarantee the secrecy of the information so that we have the elucidation as soon as possible of the perpetrators of the shooting and the arrest of these elements”, he concluded.
Interned in São Paulo
Porridge arrived at a hospital in São Paulo (see video below), around 2 pm on Sunday, transferred in a helicopter with a mobile ICU from the Fire Department. The bassist underwent a surgery that lasted 3h30 at Hospital São Luiz do Itaim, from Rede D’Or.
The hospital informed, through its press office, that Porridge “was immediately received by the waiting service team. The clinical picture is considered delicate. The patient will receive all the necessary assistance for his case, which is under the coordination of the neurosurgeon Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira”.
Porridge and Outrage a Rigor
Rinaldo Oliveira Amaral, known as Mingau, is a bassist and music producer who has been active since the 1980s.
His first band of national projection was Ratos de Porão, where he played as a guitarist between 1982 and 1985.
Mingau recorded the split “SUB”, which combined songs from Ratos de Porão, Fogo Cruzado and Cólera, released in 1983.
The following year, with João Gordo on vocals for the band, Mingau recorded the guitars for Ratos’ debut album, “Crucificados pelo Sistema”, one of the first hardcore albums in Brazil.
At the end of the decade, in 1999, Mingau joined Ultraje a Rigor after Serginho Petroni left. That year, the band released “18 Anos Sem Tirar!”, an album recorded live three years earlier, which had four new tracks recorded in the studio, with Mingau.
In 2001, the band participates in the third edition of Rock in Rio, in a presentation with Ira!.
“In 2005, the band recorded and released, on CD and DVD (the first of their career), their Acústico MTV. The album includes great hits such as “Inútil”, “Mim Quer Tocar”, “Independente Futebol Clube” and “Eu Gosto de Mulher” and unreleased tracks, such as “Cada Um Por Si””, highlights the band in the biography on their official website .
In 2011, Ultraje, with Mingau, Roger, Bacalhau and Marcos Kleine in the formation, became part of the cast of the talk show “Agora É Tarde”, on Bandeirantes. The band migrated with presenter Danilo Gentili to SBT, at the end of 2013, to the new talk show, “The Noite”, where they continue as a fixed band.
(Published by Lucas Schroeder, with information by Catarina Nestlehner, Elis Franco and Léo Lopes)
Source: CNN Brasil
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