Funk player Emerson Teixeira Muniz, known as MC Tuto, was arrested after running over a 20-year-old man with a Porschein the early hours of this Saturday (24), in Barueri, Greater São Paulo.
The accident happened near Feirinha de Barueri, where the singer was recording a music video. At the end of filming, MC Tuto was driving a Porsche 911 Carrera GTSaccompanied by a model, when he hit the victim. THE vehicle was equipped with a camera attached to the hood of the luxury carwhich recorded the movement at the time of the accident.
The incident this morning was attended to by a team from the GCM (Municipal Civil Guard) who reported that, when they arrived at the scene, the victim was already being rescued in serious condition, with fractures in both legs, ribs and cracks in the skull. The boy was taken to Francisco Moran Municipal Hospital.
In a statement to the guards, MC Tuto said he was recording a video when he felt an impact and saw that he had run over the young man. He told the police that he was not speeding: “he was approximately 30 km/h”, as recorded in the police report.
A CNN Brazil obtained access to the security camera circuit showing the accident. Watch:
According to the BO, after analyzing the facts, the funk player was in “speed absolutely incompatible with the roaddemonstrating that he assumed, with his conduct, the risk of killing someone.”
According to GCM, the place where the singer drove is restricted for pedestrian movementonly with permission from Dermutran (Municipal Traffic Department), which was not done by the funk player.
According to two witnesses interviewed by the police, after the accident, MC Tuto provided support to the young man who was run over and remained at the scene until a police vehicle arrived.
At the end of the incident, the funk player was arrested in the act, without bail, and charged with attempted murder. In the indictment, the police mention that the author took the risk of killing the pedestrian and that he could hit anyone on the street, representing the qualifier of common danger and even though it made it difficult to defend the victim. According to the police, the collision occurred unexpectedly, not allowing any reaction or defense on the part of the young man.
The funk player’s Porsche and cell phone were seized and the Civil Police represented the preventive arrest of MC Tutowhich was decreed after a custody hearing held this Saturday (24).
The SSP (Public Security Secretariat) reported that fpray requested expert examinations at the Criminalistics Institute and the IML (Medical-Legal Institute) and the case was registered as attempted murder and vehicle location/seizure at the Barueri Headquarters Police Station.
O singer has almost five million followers on social media and boasts a life of luxury on his Instagram profile, where he posts photos of trips abroad, private planes, as well as the gray Porsche he was driving in the accident.
A CNN Brazil contacted MC Tuto’s defense for a position. The space is open.
