The Brazilian prosecutor in charge of a homicide case involving Danilo Cavalcante says he thought the now captured fugitive might try to head back to his home country
RIO DE JANEIRO — — When the Brazilian prosecutor in charge of a homicide case targeting Danilo Cavalcante saw footage of the 34 year-old, he thought the fugitive might try to head home, where he stood to receive a considerably lighter sentence.
“I thought he wanted to escape to Brazil,” Tocantins state prosecutor Rafael Pinto Alamy told the Associated Press on Thursday. “He would have to comply with the prison rules here, which are much more lenient.” Brazil does not deliver life sentences. Even had Cavalcante been sentenced to the maximum 30 years, Alamy said, he might have been able to walk free after some 12 years with reductions for good behavior.
The 20-year-old victim, Valter Júnior Moreira dos Reis, was shot five times, according to a police report seen by the AP. His sister later told officers she thought Cavalcante had attacked him because of a debt her brother owed him related to damage done to a car, the report read.Authorities in Brazil opened an investigation and, within a week, a judge had ordered his preventive arrest, documents show. Law enforcement was not able to find Cavalcante, who was not from the area.
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