Morro dos Macacos, a community located in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, registered 37 shootings between January and May 2025. This is the largest brand since 2019, when 36 shot changes were informed in the same period.
According to the Fogo Cruzado Institute, responsible for disclosing data on armed violence, of the 37 shootings, 12 have been recorded in recent days. Two confrontations took place this morning (12), already ten others occurred only this weekend, between Friday (9) and Sunday (11).
Most records occurred amid disputes between armed groups, with a total number of 12 shootings. Three more are arising from police actions.
The confrontation figures show that one person was killed and three were injured in this year’s analyzed period. In 2019, the data is the same.
Other featured dates are the years 2024 and 2020, with 28 shootings, 6 dead and 2 injured, and 23 shootings, 1 dead and 2 injured respectively.
This content was originally published in a community of RJ records 37 shootings in 2025, the largest brand since 2019 on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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