Rafael Garcia Pedroso brutally murdered the young man's mother during a barbecue with friends in 2016.
After that event, Marcos's life changed completely. Along with his brothers, who were 7 and 2 years old at the time, he was left in the care of his maternal grandmother, a domestic worker who raised them in a suburb
Years later, the story once again crossed paths with the protagonists of the tragedy with a fatal outcome. After the murder of Rafael, Marcos fled and is intensely wanted by the police, who requested a preventive detention order against him
.
His lawyer, José Rodrigo de Almeida, said that the young man intended to surrender, although he explained that the process was delayed due to administrative reasons. “He never evaded the authorities and unequivocally expressed his intention to confess the facts and cooperate with justice
,” he said.The lawyer also revealed details of the confession of his client, who justified the crime with a phrase that summarizes the trauma he has been carrying since his childhood: “I saw how he killed my mother”.
According to the lawyer, the emotional impact is still profound. He said that when he showed him a photo of his mother on his cell phone, Marcos “burst into tears, began to tremble and asked for a hug.” In this context, he argued that the young man “feels very angry when he sees the photo of his
mother”.In the city of Frutal, located in Brazil, a young man named Marcos Antônio da Silva Neto murdered Rafael Garcia Pedroso, the same man who brutally murdered his mother, Glauciane Cipriano, in an event that the young man witnessed as just a child.
According to the police investigation, Marcos followed Rafael's movements for weeks until the attack came to fruition on March 31.
That day, his mother's killer was waiting for his wife outside a health center when he was caught. Silva Neto shot him five times in the back, killing him on the spot, and then escaped by
motorbike.
The episode closed a circle that began on July 3, 2016, when Rafael murdered Glauciane Cipriano in the middle of a meeting. Both were a couple and were sharing a barbecue with friends when the man brutally attacked her
.As determined in the case, the woman was stabbed about 20 times, in front of witnesses and Marcos himself, who was only eight years old at the time. The investigation described the crime as being committed for a futile motive, with extreme violence and no possibility of defense for the victim, in a context of domestic and family violence
