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Illustration of a police-secured family home and children's memorial at the scene of a tragic double homicide-suicide in Itumbiara, Brazil.
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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.

An eight-year-old girl suffered serious facial injuries and a broken arm after being attacked by a puma during a hike in a private reserve in Alto Paraíso de Goiás.

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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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