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Police shootout in Rio leaves one officer dead and three injured
Four military police officers were shot during a clash between police teams on Sunday in the Gardênia Azul community in southwest Rio de Janeiro.
Sub-lieutenant Gláucio Marcelo, a member of BOPE, the police special operations unit, died.
Two other BOPE officers and one officer from the 18th Battalion in Jacarepaguá were injured and taken to hospital.
Initial information indicated that both teams may have mistaken the other for criminals.
The local battalion reportedly did not know BOPE was in the area, where its officers were using an unmarked vehicle.
The clash is being recorded at the 41st Police District and will be transferred to the Capital Homicide Division.
The available information does not give details about the injured officers’ condition.
Four military police officers were shot in an exchange of fire between police teams in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday morning.
BOPE officer Gláucio Marcelo died, and three other officers were injured.
The confrontation took place in the Gardênia Azul community in the city’s southwest.
Initial information indicated that teams mistook each other for drug traffickers.
The injured officers were taken to Lourenço Jorge Municipal Hospital.
- Who
- Military police from BOPE and the 18th Battalion (Jacarepaguá) were involved. One BOPE officer, Gláucio Marcelo, died.
- What
- An exchange of fire left one officer dead and three injured.
- When
- Sunday morning, October 11; the article was published in 2026.
- Where
- Gardênia Azul community, in southwestern Rio de Janeiro.
- Why
- Initial information indicated that the teams mistook one another for drug traffickers.
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Police teams exchanged fire in Gardênia Azul, leaving four officers shot.
The three injured officers were taken to Lourenço Jorge Municipal Hospital.
The case was registered at the 41st Police Station and was to be referred to the Capital Homicide Division.
- Fatality
- BOPE sublieutenant Gláucio Marcelo
- Injured
- Three officers: two from BOPE and one from the 18th Battalion
- Location
- Gardênia Azul, southwestern Rio de Janeiro
- Hospital
- Lourenço Jorge Municipal Hospital, Barra da Tijuca
- Police units
- BOPE and the 18th Battalion (Jacarepaguá)
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