After 25 years in prison, former medical student Mateus da Costa Meira, who killed three people and injured others in a cinema at Shopping Morumbi, in São Paulo, was released. The information is from the Bahia Penitentiary Administration Secretariat. His defense was not located.
“SEAP confirms the release of Mateus da Costa Meira, in a decision by the Bahia Court of Justice,” said the ministry.
In turn, the judicial body only said that the defendant’s case is being processed in secret.
Remember the case
On November 3, 1999, the former student invaded a movie theater at Shopping Morumbi, shooting several times with a submachine gun at people who were there. Three died and others were also injured.
In 2004, Meira was sentenced to 120 years in prison for the crimes – a sentence reduced in 2007 to 48 years and nine months in prison.
In February 2009, Meira was transferred from the Tremembé Prison, in the interior of São Paulo, to the Lemos Brito Penitentiary, in Salvador, to serve the remainder of his sentence in the capital of Bahia, where he was born.
In May of the same year, serving his sentence in Salvador, he tried to kill his cellmate, Spaniard Francisco Vidal Lopes, with scissors. The victim was not seriously injured, but the attacker was charged with attempted murder.
Two years later, in 2011, by decision of the 1st Court of the Jury of Salvador, supported by a report that indicated schizophrenia, Meira was considered unaccountable and transferred to a psychiatric hospital in the city, where he has remained until now.
This content was originally published in Shooter who killed 3 in SP cinema leaves prison after 25 years on the CNN Brasil website.
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