One suspected of having participated in the death of the civil police officer of Special Resources Coordination (Core), João Pedro Marquini, was killed during a Civil Police operation Held on the afternoon of Thursday (15), in the Santa Cruz neighborhood, in the West Zone of Rio.
The information was confirmed by the Capital Homicide Police Station (DHC), responsible for the investigations.
Alefe Jonathan Fernandes Rodrigues, the target of a temporary arrest warrant, was located indoors. According to police, he tried to react at the time of the approach and was eventually shot. The suspect was rescued and taken to Pedro II Municipal Hospital, but could not resist the injuries.
During the action, coordinated together with Core teams, a weapon used by Alefe was seized and will be subjected to expert examinations.
The investigation points out that Alefe had a direct participation in the murder on March 30 this year, also in the West Zone. At the time, policeman João Pedro Marquini was attacked by armed criminals while driving his car. In another vehicle was his wife, Judge Tulla Mello, who witnessed the crime.
The Civil Police also pointed out that the operation reinforces the institution’s commitment to the defense of life and the punishment of crimes against state agents.
Operation with five dead
An operation triggered on April 15 to fulfill warrants against suspects of participation in Marquini’s death ended with five dead in the region of Ladeira dos Tabajaras, in Copacabana. According to police, they would have clashed with the Core and the Capital Homicide Police Station (DHC). Three other people were caught in the act.
Among the dead was Vinícius Kleber Di Carlantoni Martins, “Full of Hate” pointed as one of the heads of the locality of the locality. According to security forces, he was responsible for stimulating attacks against police.
Investigations pointed out that the vehicle used in an attack on the Antares favela in Santa Cruz, in the west of the capital, just before the episode involving the policeman and his wife, belonged to the trafficker “full of hatred”. According to the agents, the order to invade the community in the West Zone came from Tabajaras criminals.
On the same day, the Civil Police arrested Antonio Augusto D’Angelo da Fonseca, the target of an arrest warrant and appointed as involved in the death of the Core agent. At the time, police said the other target of the operation, named Walace Andrade de Oliveira, was still on the run.
Remember the case
The death of Marquini It took place on March 30, around 8:30 pm, at Avenida Artur Xéxeo, near the GROTA Funda Road, in Vargem Grande, West Zone of Rio. The agent and his wife, Judge Tulla Melo, returned from his mother’s house in Campo Grande, when they were approached by criminals in an attempted robbery.
According to the report of the Forensic Medical Institute (IML), Marquini was hit by five gunshots. Three of the shots were made in the back – two in the dorsal region and one in the back of the arm. He was also shot in the chest, with one of the shots reaching the aorta, as well as suffering a scrape wound.
This content was originally published in suspected of killing judge’s husband is killed in operation in Rio on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil

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