What the records say
- When
- 2007
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 1
- Coordinates
- 22.87° S, 43.35° W
- Description
- 2007 murder of a child in Rio de Janeiro
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Murder of João Hélio
2007 murder of a child in Rio de Janeiro
João Hélio Fernandes Vieites was a six-year-old Brazilian boy who was murdered on February 7, 2007 by being dragged from a car for 7 km after an armed carjacking by a group of young males in Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro. The callous and brutal manner in which João Hélio was murdered shocked the Brazilian public and received substantial coverage in Rio's media and throughout Brazil.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A six-year-old boy named João Hélio dies after being dragged for 7 km by a car driven by criminals during a robbery in Rio de Janeiro”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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