Ex-participant of The Voice Kids, Tuca Almeida is shot dead at age 15 | State



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A 15-year-old teenager was shot dead on Thursday afternoon (30) in the Candeias neighborhood, in Jaboatão dos Guararapes, in Greater Recife. According to the Military Police (PM), the victim was Tuca Almeida, who participated in the program The Voice Kids, from Balloon TVin 2018, when I was 13 years old.

Still according to the prime minister, about 15 shots were fired. In a statement, the Civil Police said that the homicide occurred around 5:00 p.m. and that, according to preliminary information, six hooded men shot into a commercial establishment.

“They were allegedly looking for the victim’s brother-in-law, who was on the scene accompanying the young man and managed to escape. This brother-in-law, from the initial investigations, is a prisoner released as a measure to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the prison system,” he said. . The Civil Police in the text.

The case was registered by the South Metropolitan Homicide Task Force team, coordinated by the delegate Fábio Lacerda. The investigation is on behalf of delegate Icarus Schneider. The Civil Police said that it will rule on the case at the end of the investigation, “which will not cease until the necessary clarification and capture of those responsible.”

Information on the date, time, and location of the burial of Tuca Almeida’s body was not disclosed until the last update of this report.

Homicides in Pernambuco

Pernambuco registered a 14.2% increase in homicide cases in March 2020, according to data published by the Ministry of Social Defense (SDS). The number increased from 316 to 361, comparing the month with the same period in 2019, despite the restrictive measures implemented to encourage social isolation and contain the new coronavirus pandemic.

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