“I tried to run away, but one of them caught up with me,” says friend of Taylor Swift fan stabbed to death

“I tried to run away, but one of them caught up with me,” says friend of Taylor Swift fan stabbed to death


Felipe Evangelista Torres, a friend of the victim, said he was attacked with a radio

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One of his friends Gabriel Mongenot Santana Milhomem SantosThe 25-year-old, killed after being stabbed on Copacabana beach in southern Rio, told police he tried to escape as the criminals approached him.

According to the newspaper The globe, Filippo Evangelista Torres he stated that he was captured by one of the men, who attacked him with a radio.

“I was here on the beach with my friends, around 3.30 in the morning, until some boys came out of that area and went to where we were. They came closer, I tried to run away, but one of them reached us and hit me with a radio. They gathered us all, until my friend woke up scared, he was sleeping. He went to react and one of them stabbed my friend. It is the same one, in fact, who committed all these things, the other was watching. They ran away, I chased them all the way to here on the seafront. They were both black, one had on dark shorts without a shirt and the other, I don’t remember the shorts, but the shirt was pink and he was They were also wearing a cap and they were between 30 and 40 years old,” the young people reported.

Gabriel Mongenot Santana Milhomem Santos was in town to attend the American singer’s show Taylor Swift. According to relatives, before the crime he was staying in Barra da Tijuca and had gone with a group of friends to Lapa. Then, in a rental car, they went to Copacabana and went down to the sand to dive into the sea at night.

The video shows the reactions of friends

The videos obtained by TV Band and published on Tuesday 21st show moments following the criminals’ action against the boy. After the robbery, one of Gabriel’s friends runs along the beach looking for help.

This friend appears to raise his hand several times and shout for help. Afterwards, the group of friends are seen running back towards the sea, where Gabriel was. Two other fans approach a man sitting on a bench and talk, apparently asking him to call the police.

Police officers on board a PM quadricycle approach. The victims tell the police the direction in which the criminals fled. Then a Guard car appears, the friends then talk to the officers.

Who was Gabriele?

The victim’s cousins ​​told the newspaper The State of S. Paolo who was from Mato Grosso do Sul, but was studying aerospace engineering in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.

The student is the second victim from Mato Grosso do Sul to die in Rio during Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour. Ana Clara Benevides, 23, died after falling ill during the singer’s first show.

Source: Terra

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