Matheus dos Santos da Silva is accused of stabbing Vitórya Melissa Mota disclosure
Published 05/26/2022 17:15
“We are facing a sick person who did not have any mental capacity to understand what was happening and thus avoid this tragedy. The process changes course. We are no longer dealing with a murderer, bloodthirsty, cold and cruel as the Prosecutor’s Office. We are facing a person with a mental illness pre-existing to the facts and who needs urgent hospitalization”, he said.
The decision caused a wave of protests on social media. “How sad… I met the young woman’s mother in a store queue and she is very devastated by all this, very easy to say he had a disorder, but her daughter was killed, so what? How many more will have to die? “, wrote a friend of the victim’s family.
Friends and family organize a demonstration at the entrance of the Plaza shopping mall, in Niterói, next Thursday (2). This Monday (30), Vitórya would have turned 23.
Sought after, the Public Ministry of Rio, which denounced Matheus, said it was verifying the information.
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Matheus and Vitórya met in a nursing technical course and became colleagues. According to the investigations, conducted by delegate Luiz Henrique Marques, from the 73rd DP (Niterói), the criminal would have bought the knife in a mall store minutes before committing the crime. In addition, the two had the custom of meeting at the establishment at the end of classes.
According to the Public Ministry’s complaint, Matheus did not accept the fact that Vitórya did not want to have a relationship with him. The accused stabbed the young woman on the afternoon of June 2, in the food court of Shopping Plaza. The student was rescued, but she could not resist the injuries and died.