A teenage serial killer in Brazil, who is thought to be responsible for killing
11 people could have killed more as police continue to probe his alleged
murdering rampage. The unnamed boy who is just 16-years-old is being held in connection with the shooting of a taxi driver in the city of Teresina, Brazil but is thought to be responsible for multiple murders along with his 18-year-old accomplice.
The teenager had a handgun
and nine cartridges on him when he was held by armed officers in
Teresina, the capital of the north-east state of Piaui, along with his
suspected robber accomplice.
His alleged victims include taxi driver Jose Wilson Teixeira, 60, shot as he tried to escape after being held up at gunpoint
on February 3, and a 44-year-old man killed on February 27 after being
held up by two men on a motorbike as a customer paid him.
The unnamed youngster is also suspected of shooting dead a
27-year-old street seller in January thought to have been targeted after
stumbling into a makeshift meeting of local criminals by mistake.
Police
captain Paulo Silas said:
“We’ve been after him for some time and went to a house where we arrested him in a neighbourhood in the north of the city after receiving intelligence he was there.
“He’s cruel. He killed just for the sake of it.”
Pictures released by the police today show the pint-sized 16-year-old
in swimshorts with a tracksuit top over his bare chest, surrounded by
heavily-armed officers.
The older boy arrested with him, known as Mateusinho, looked equally dishevelled in a dirty T-shirt and grubby shorts.
Officers
said they suspected the younger of the two suspects, said to have
committed the murders in an area of Teresina known as Promorar, had been
constantly moving around to try to avoid detection.
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