"We continue to trust", says friend of Rota lieutenant shot in SP
A family friend of Rota lieutenant (Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar) Ronickson Pimentel dos Santos, shot in the head last Saturday (27), published a message updating the officer's wife's health status on social media. He is the older brother of Eloá Pimentel, victim of a kidnapping and murder in 2008.
In the text, published this Monday (29), the friend informs that Cintia, the lieutenant's wife, "is completely dedicated to Ronickson's recovery" and, therefore, will stay away from social media to live the period more peacefully.
"We continue to trust, pray and believe in Ronickson's recovery. We count on your prayers too", says the publication, which also thanks you for the positive energy and messages of affection.
The post asks, finally, that only updates about the case published by Rota's official profile be considered as true.
Message was published on the lieutenant's wife's networks - Reproduction
Health status
The most recent update from the PM (Military Police) points out that Lieutenant Pimentel's health condition remains "extremely serious" and unchanged.
The officer is admitted to the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) of the Mário Covas State Hospital, in Santo André, ABC Paulista, under continuous neurological monitoring after undergoing emergency surgery. According to police, he is "fighting for his life."
Understand the case
The attempted murder occurred on Saturday morning (27) on Avenida Goiás, in São Caetano do Sul, Greater São Paulo.
The lieutenant was leaving a gym and waiting at a traffic light on his motorcycle when he was surprised by two men on another motorcycle, who stopped beside him and fired shots.
Ronickson was hit and fell to the asphalt, being rescued and taken to the hospital by the PM's Águia helicopter.
The court has already ordered the temporary arrest of two men, aged 40 and 52, who were located in the Guaianases region, in the east zone of São Paulo, this Sunday (29).
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They are being investigated for providing logistical and transport support for the criminal action, escorting the shooters' motorcycle with two vehicles. One of them confessed to participating in supporting the crime, and a third suspect, aged 24, was arrested in the action, but was later released.
The police also found that some of those involved in the attack have ties to the PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital), the largest criminal faction in the country.
The authorities continue their search for those who carried out the shooting, with the help of images from cameras from the Smart Sampa program, which managed to reconstruct the criminals' escape route and identify the motorcycle used in the crime, which was abandoned and seized in the community of Heliópolis.
*Under the supervision of Carolina Figueiredo
Source: CNN