Actor João Vicente de Castro, 39, used his social media to pay tribute to jiu-jitsu champion Leandro Lo, who died after being shot in the head, in the early hours of Sunday (7), at a club in São Paulo. “A real hero,” wrote the artist.
“One of the most talented fighters the world has ever seen. I called Leandro the ‘project kid’ because that’s where he came from. He fought and turned his story, he became one of the greatest in the world and filled us all with pride,” he said. the actor.
“He was full of qualities that got tangled up with difficulties, full of desire to help whoever was on his side, Leandro was a great man. But his path was crossed by a coward who was easy to have a gun in his waist”.
Leandro Lo was watching, with family and friends, the Grupo Pixote show, at Clube Sírio, in the south of São Paulo, when he got involved in a disagreement and was hit in the head by a military policeman. He was rescued, but confirmed brain dead at the hospital.
Military Police Lieutenant Henrique Otavio Oliveira, 30, turned himself in to the corporation’s Internal Affairs Office on Sunday night, after the court decreed his temporary detention for 30 days. He was off duty when he would have shot the fighter.
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