In all, 108 people were killed and 64 were injured; The numbers are survey by the Fogo Cruzado Institute
It recorded a 36% increase in the number of shootings, in the set of the metropolitan regions of Salvador, Recife and Rio de Janeiro, in the first half of this year. There were 253 shootings involving disputes between different armed groups, compared to 186 recorded in the same period last year.
In all, 108 people were killed and 64 were injured in these shootings. In 2024, there were 80 killed and 60 injured. The data were released on Monday (21.Jul.2025).
The figures are part of the semiannual monitoring report held in 49 municipalities of these 3 metropolitan regions, accompanied by the Institute. In addition, 20 people were victims of lost bullets and 21 children and adolescents were shot from which 11 died – a 91%increase compared to the first half of last year.
The crossfire states that shootings in disputes between armed groups have impacts on the dynamics of cities, on displacement and also on the life of the population.
“This is a chronic problem that every day puts children on the line of shooting in Brazil. Knowing that the shootings have increased is to know that more families have lived with them, that younger people have gone through this trauma. It is necessary to answer this, have proposals at state and federal levels for this problem because it is not small”says Data Director of Fogo Cruzado Institute, Maria Isabel Couto.
Rio de Janeiro
According to the data recorded, in the case of Rio de Janeiro, the clashes have been intense since 2024 in 4 locations: Morro dos Macacos, Fuba Complex, Catiri and oath complex.
The document shows that together, Catiri (8), Morro dos Macacos (57), Fuba Complex (54) and Morro do Oath (54) concentrated more than half (57%) of the shootings during disputes between armed groups and 36% of victims affected in this 1st semester.
With 66 shootings, Vila Isabel, in the North Zone of Rio, remains among the neighborhoods most affected by armed violence, as well as throughout 2024, when it was considered the neighborhood of the metropolitan region of Rio with more shootings, with 88 records.
Considering the total of shootings mapped from January to June this year, there was police participation in 504 of them, representing 41% of the records. In 2024, in the same period, of the 1,346 mapped shootings, 459 of them (34%) took place in these circumstances.
Recife
In the metropolitan region of Recife, the report shows a significant increase in the number of shootings and people shot in clashes. According to the cross fire, 18 shootings motivated by disputes between different armed groups were mapped in 2024, it was only 1.
The report also points out that of the 18 shootings registered in disputes in this 1st semester, 6 were in Recife. There were also shootings in Olinda (4), Paulista (4), Cabo de Santo Agostinho (2), Goiana (1) and Moreno (1).
Two children died as a result of the shootings: Helen Santos, 4, killed by stray bullet in the Deodato stream, in the Água Fria neighborhood, in Recife, on April 12; and 7 -year -old Emilly, also for a stray bullet in Peixinhos, Olinda, on March 28.
Of the 39 lost bullet victims, 31 were hit as collateral victims of homicide or attempted murder. Olinda concentrated most victims with 17 people hit. Cabo de Santo Agostinho (8), Recife (8), Paulista (2), Abreu and Lima (1), Goiana (1), Jaboatão dos Guararapes (1) and São Lourenço da Mata (1) also recorded victims of lost bullets.
Salvador
Regarding Salvador and the Metropolitan Region, there were 81 shootings in disputes between armed groups. These clashes resulted in 45 deaths and left 28 injured. In 2024, in the same period, there were also 81 shootings in this context, which left 35 dead and 23 injured.
Otherwise
In a statement, the State Government of Rio de Janeiro reported that it would not comment on the data from the Fogo Cruzado Institute and that data from the Institute of Public Security, the official data analysis and crime indicators of the government, show that violent lethality in the state reached in May and June the smallest numbers of the historical series that began in 1991.
These numbers are results, according to the note, the investment of more than R $ 4.5 billion in technology and intelligence, ensuring better research conditions, training, equipment and protection for agents and the population.
Recife and Salvador did not respond.
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