Thursday, October 16, 2014

Serial killer of Brazil arrested as he tried to kill his 40th victim


26-year-old Thiago Rocha, a hospital worker in Brazil, has been arrested a he tried to kill his 40th victim news.sky.com. He had already killed 39 people in 10 months out of "anger at everything and everyone" as informed by the Brazil police.
His first victim was 14-year-old Barbara Luiza Ribeiro Costa, who Thiago killed in January this year and the 40th victim would have been Ana Lidia Gomes, who was shot at a bus stop in a motorbike drive-by.
She had a lucky escape because he tried to shoot her outside the snack bar from his motorbike but the gun jammed. He, therefore, kicked her in the mouth before speeding away. Images recorded on a snack bar CCTV helped police to identify him.
Thiago Rocha had embarked on a killing spree in the central state of Goias, where he worked as a guard at a maternity and infant hospital and, he has been described by Chief of Police Deusny Aparecido as a "cold person" and "killed out of anger". It seems the 39 victims included young, homeless people and homosexuals.

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