The body of amateur football player Kauã Galdino Florêncio Pereira, aged 18, will be laid to rest and buried this Sunday afternoon (5).
The wake is scheduled to begin at 2pm. The burial will take place at 4pm. Both will be at the Jardim Envida Rio cemetery, in Queimados.
The athlete was shot after accidentally stepping on the foot of a man identified as the leader of drug trafficking in the area. The Homicide Department identified the shooter as He has not yet been located
According to the police, Kauã even apologized to the criminal, but he didn’t accept it. The young man was taken to the top of Morro São Simão and was shot twice, one of them in the head.
The victim was taken to an Emergency Care Unit (UPA) in Queimados and then transferred to the Nova Iguaçu General Hospital. Brain death was confirmed last Thursday night (2) and the family was notified the following morning.
According to the Civil Police, . He was released in January 2024.
After confirming the football player’s brain death,
*Under supervision
