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RIO – UFRJ pharmacy student Marcos Winícius Tomé Coelho, 20, found dead last Friday in Nova Iguaçu, in Baixada Fluminense, 49 kilometers from where he was last seen alive, was killed with four shots , according to preliminary inquiries by the Baixada Fluminense Homicide Police (DHBF). On Thursday, the boy disappeared after riding a bicycle from a shopping center in Botafogo, in the South Zone, to his home in Urca. The body was found by military police near Via Dutra in the Engenho Pequeno neighborhood.
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To try to find out what happened to the student, and also how the murderers transported him in the section between the South Zone and the Baixada, the Civil Police will request images from the security cameras installed along this road. Investigators still have no clues to help unravel what motivated the crime.
Marcus Winícius would turn 21 for the next 23 years. Police did not reveal if the young man was killed in Nova Iguaçu or if his body was left at the scene. There is an expectation that the autopsy result may help clarify the timing of the crime.
– We are trying to understand the dynamics of the crime to clarify how everything happened. Nothing is ruled out, said DHBF chief Uriel Alcântara, who is investigating the case.
Since no line of investigation has been ruled out, DHBF investigators will also check whether withdrawals have been made from the victim’s bank account. In addition, family members and friends who were with the student shortly before the disappearance should be called to testify before the specialist.
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Belongings are gone
The student left the shopping center shortly before closing time, around 9.40 pm, with an electric bicycle and would travel approximately two kilometers to his home, in a building near Praia Vermelha. He still had a cell phone and a wallet. No belongings were found. The clues, until this Tuesday, were few. Investigators would verify a report that Marcos Winícius was placed inside a car. Security camera images have begun to be analyzed in the shopping center and nearby streets. The Civil Police, which still verifies if there were withdrawals from the university’s bank account, provided a cell phone number for anyone who can transmit information – (21) 98596-7442 – and also has the support of the Direct Line ( 2253-1177). Agents await the result of an examination by the Nova Iguaçu Medical-Legal Institute that will reveal the time of the young man’s murder, which should help in the investigation of the case. It is not known if he was killed in the South Zone, the Baixada or on the route between the two regions.
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Marcos Winícius, who would turn 21 in nine days, was studious, cheerful, restless. With his family, he came from Altamira, in Pará, to live in Rio. The son of a military man, he went to the UFRJ in 2017, and in 2018 he became a producer for a company specialized in organizing parties and other events. Full of energy, he didn’t stop and smiled all the time. He was reputed to be a joke, he laughed easily.
– We are all shocked, without understanding what happened – said this Tuesday in astonishment the medical student Felipe Couto, Marcos Winícius’ childhood friend who, every year, came to Rio to meet him.
“That smile will remain forever in my memory,” wrote the mother, Paula Tomé, on Instagram. In the same post, he asked for respect for the memory of the family and thanked the support he has received from family and friends and from the UFRJ rectory.
“When a mother loses a child, all the mothers in the world also lose a little,” said a friend of the family in a comment on Facebook. Dismayed, groups of which the university was part of social networks paid tribute and demanded justice, as did the UFRJ. “The rectory confidently hopes that the police authorities will succeed in the investigations, that, even if they do not return Marcos Winícius, they will respond to the Rio de Janeiro society, which lives, day after day, as hostage to a violence that apparently does not stop,” says a excerpt from a note from the institution.
