It is suspected that Brendo dos Santos Sampaio practiced ‘crack’ at the time of the accident and, therefore, would have taken the risk of killing; Defense denies and claims that the case ‘was a fatality’
Brendo dos Santos Sampaio, 26, is the driver responsible for running over that resulted in the deaths of two 18-year-olds on Avenida Goiás, in São Caetano do Sul, on Wednesday (9). It has a history of twelve traffic violations, seven of them related to speeding. The information was released by the delegate responsible for the investigation, Kelly Sachetto, in an interview with Record TV. According to the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP), he was indicted for willful murder (intended to kill) and was arrested in the act of converted to preventive after a custody hearing on Thursday (10).
The suspicion is that he practiced “crack” at the time of being run over and, therefore, would have taken the risk of killing. Sampaio’s defense denies. According to defense lawyers, Thalita Beserra, Francisco Ferreira and Thaís Vianna, the case “was a fatality”. They claim that the victims, Isabela and Isabelli, crossed the road when the traffic light was still closed to them and that the student would not have seen them.
“He provided help at the same time, not evading the scene. And the drunken test was negative,” the defenders added. Images show your car at high speed. The bodies of the victims were launched 50 meters from the site. The driver, who is a law student, was sent to the São Bernardo do Campo Provisional Detention Center (CDP).
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Posted by Fernando Dias
