Goiás
Second son dies after being shot by secretary in Itumbiara
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Benício Araújo Machado, 8, died on Friday (13) in Itumbiara, Goiás, from shots fired by his father, Government Secretary Thales Naves Alves Machado, who also killed his older brother and took his own life. Civil Police are investigating the case as double homicide followed by suicide, pointing to a marital crisis as a possible motive. The children's mother faced threats during the older son's burial.
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.
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Brazil's Senate approved on Wednesday (March 25) a bill classifying vicaricídio as a heinous crime, with 20 to 40 years imprisonment. Inspired by the killing of two brothers in Itumbiara (GO), it integrates the Maria da Penha Law and awaits presidential sanction.