Politics · Brazil · 7 hrs ago
Body-camera footage not yet sent to investigators in fatal São Paulo shooting
Gustavo Munis de Santana, 20, was shot and killed by military police in São Paulo on Saturday, October 10.
Police were called after he reportedly threatened to take his own life.
The police incident report says he ran toward officers holding a dark object, which was later identified as a cellphone.
Officers fired 45 shots, and 27 hit him; investigators have seized the officers’ guns and his phone for examination.
The officers’ body-camera recordings are held by the Military Police’s internal affairs unit, but had not been sent to the Civil Police investigators by Monday afternoon.
Four officers involved have been removed from duty while the case is investigated, a measure that does not by itself establish criminal responsibility.
The state security department says the circumstances are being investigated and that any misconduct will be punished.
Police investigators in São Paulo had not received body-camera footage from officers involved in the fatal shooting of Gustavo Munis de Santana by early Monday afternoon.
The 20-year-old was hit by 27 bullets during an incident on Saturday, October 10.
The footage, held by the Military Police’s internal affairs department, is considered important to establishing what happened.
Four officers involved in the incident were removed from duty while the case is investigated.
The police report says officers were called because Munis was reportedly distressed and threatening to take his own life.
- Who
- Gustavo Munis de Santana, 20, was killed; four Military Police officers were involved.
- What
- Munis was shot 27 times, and investigators had not received the officers’ body-camera footage by early Monday afternoon.
- When
- The shooting happened on Saturday, October 10. The footage had not been sent by early Monday afternoon, October 12.
- Where
- São Paulo, Brazil.
- Why
- Authorities were reportedly called because Munis was threatening to take his own life. The circumstances of the shooting are under investigation.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Gustavo Munis de Santana was shot during an incident involving Military Police officers.
The Civil Police had not received the body-camera footage, which was held by the Military Police’s internal affairs department.
Munis was buried at Cemitério Congonhas in the south of São Paulo.
- Victim
- Gustavo Munis de Santana, 20
- Bullets that hit Munis
- 27
- Officers removed from duty
- 4
- Footage held by
- Military Police’s internal affairs department
- Burial site
- Cemitério Congonhas, south of São Paulo
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