In the early morning of April 3 in Águas Lindas (GO), a 64-year-old man killed his 63-year-old wife and 13-year-old grandson with pickaxe blows inside their home. The perpetrator was found dead by hanging hours later. Lúcia Carreiro, the couple's daughter and the boy's mother, survived as she was traveling.
The crime took place in the Jardim Laranjeiras neighborhood in Águas Lindas, in the Federal District's surroundings. Victims Tertulia Bezerra da Silva Sousa, 63, and Davi Correia de Sousa, 13, were found with head wounds in separate rooms of the home. The bodies were discovered around 2 p.m. on Friday by a family grandson who arrived with a friend after getting no response from residents.
In the backyard, the perpetrator's body—husband to Tertulia and grandfather to Davi—showed signs of hanging. Preliminary forensics suggest the victims were sleeping during the attacks. Samu, Civil Police, technical forensics, and the Institute of Medical Legal (IML) teams responded.
Lúcia Carreiro, 43, was in Ceará when she learned of the news by phone from a niece. "It's very shocking. One day you have your family there, everything normal, and the next you have no one," she told Metrópoles. The family lived on the same lot in separate houses, and the teenager was very attached to his grandparents.
Distraught, Lúcia noted her father had depression and alcohol issues, though he hadn't drunk for two days. "He had been drinking, and my mother always asked him to stop," she said. The case is under investigation by the Homicide Investigation Group (GIH) as femicide and homicide followed by suicide.
