Gunman leaps out of car and runs through traffic to assassinate driver on motorway in broad daylight
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A gunman was filmed leaping out of a car and running through traffic to assassinate a driver on a motorway.
The chilling incident, which happened in broad daylight, was captured on film.
Caio César Siqueira Sisnando died on Tuesday afternoon after 11 shots were fired at him.
The 29-year-old was attacked as he stopped at traffic lights on a motorway in Fortaleza, north east Brazil.
According to civil police the driver was linked to a criminal gang and targeted because of debt.
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A spokesperson from Ceara Department of Public Security and Social Defence said: “The man killed was also known as 'Caio Lacraia'.
“We believe he was a member of the Red Command (CV, Comando Vermelho - Brazil’s second largest criminal faction) and targeted by criminals who had been hired to kill him.
“The victim was known to us as a warrant for his arrest had been issued for stealing cars.”
A video of the crime was filmed by the criminals and shared on social networks.
It shows them following the victim’s white L200 Mitsubushi and can be heard planning the attack as Caio slows down to stop at the lights.
Speaking in slang, the hitman, named by cops as Antonio Bruno Oliveira, says: “It’s going to be now, so start filming, we’ve got him.”
The assassin instructs his accomplice, who is driving, to draw level with the white pickup.
Seconds later, he jumps out of his vehicle and fires a round of seven shots which hit the right front passenger window.
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(Image: FocusOn News)
(Image: FocusOn News)
Taken by surprise, the driver makes a desperate attempt to flee, but the shooter chases the truck on foot, blasting four more bullets.
The attack sends the truck careering out of control. It rams into the traffic lights as other terrified motorists speed away from the scene.
The victim was snapped sitting upright and apparently awake at the scene, by concerned onlookers who raced to help the injured man.
He was taken to hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.
Further footage shows the car door slamming as the hitman, now back with his getaway driver, shouts: “Go, go, go, it’s done. He’s dead.”
As the gangsters speed off, with the camera pointing to the rear window showing the aftermath of the crime, the triggerman brandishes his revolver while saying in a celebratory tone: “It’s been done, it’s done.”
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(Image: FocusOn News)
(Image: FocusOn News)
His accomplice mummers in agreement as the cold-blooded killer, who continues to focus the camera on the weapon, records a message.
He says: “I unloaded the gun on the toyboy, you see my brothers, it’s done. One more has been shot down.”
A police spokesperson said they identified and arrested the gunman on Wednesday night.
This is the third gang-killing in a week to take place in the area.
Fortaleza was the centre of another horrifying gangland clash last Saturday when 14 partygoers were massacred in a hail of bullets by criminals in a revenge attack.
Just after midnight around 15 armed mobsters, belonging to a gang known as Guardians of the State stormed a crowded nightclub and opened fire inside.
Six of the victims were men and eight women - two were minors, the majority were said to be innocent and not linked to criminal activities.
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Two days later ten inmates at Itapajé prison, 78 miles from Fortaleza were killed by prisoners, who are members of the Red Command. The victims were linked to the rival Guardians of the State.
Claudio Justa, chairman of Ceara’s penitentiaries (Copen) told Agencia Brasil that the jail violence was a direct response by the Rio de Janeiro-based Red Command to the mass slaughter in Cajazeiras.
This latest killing on Wednesday in Fortaleza comes as residents accuse Ceara state governor, Camilo Santana, of losing control.
Following Saturday’s massacre, security secretary, André Costa, denied the state has "lost control of public safety" and the rule of law is in the hands of criminal factions.
At a press conference he said: “This killing was an isolated event. We have not loss of control in Ceara.
“This was an organised crime, planned and executed by criminals.”
He compared the attacks on nightclubs and concerts to those carried out in the United States and assured residents: "There is no reason to panic or be fearful."