{"id":59768,"date":"2020-05-21T11:39:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=59768"},"modified":"2020-05-21T11:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:39:50","slug":"resident-of-morro-do-salgueiro-in-sao-goncalo-rj-14-year-old-black-youth-shot-inside-relatives-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=59768","title":{"rendered":"Resident of Morro do Salgueiro, in S\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alo (RJ), 14-year-old Black Youth Shot Inside Relative’s House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For the original article in Portuguese by Leonardo Coelho published in Ponte Jornalismo click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The teen Jo\u00e3o Pedro Matos Pinto, 14 years old, was killed with a shot to the stomach during a joint operation by the Brazilian Federal Police<\/a> and Rio de Janeiro Civil Police<\/a> in the favelas of Complexo do Salgueiro<\/a>, in the Rio State city of S\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alo<\/a>. After a rescue attempt by a police helicopter, the youth disappeared for hours and was only found by his family on Tuesday morning<\/a> (May 19) at S\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alo’s Tribob\u00f3 Legal Medical Institute (IML) [police morgue].<\/p>\n

In an interview with Ponte,\u00a0<\/em>a family friend said, under condition of anonymity, that the action took place around 3pm in the area known as Praia da Luz, in the neighborhood of Ilha de Ita\u00f3ca. “Jo\u00e3o was at a relative’s house with several family members playing pool and all we know is that the police entered the house firing,” recalls the friend, adding that one of Pinto’s cousins, who had his car with him, was the first to administer aid.<\/p>\n

A video sent to\u00a0Ponte<\/em> shows bullet holes in the inside walls of the house and several pieces of furniture, as well as blood marks on the floor:<\/p>\n