It would appear that a few days ago in the town of Damanhua a girl and her male friend visited her ex boyfriend at his request, in his apartment high up in an apartment block.
Once there the ex boyfriend became jealous, enraged and taking out a gun threatened them both before holding them hostage, while a forth person a female, was also in the apartment block.
Once the police got involved it all gets a little complicated but the other female was seen at times at the window trying to calm down the police and requesting food, then sent down a rope made of twisted blankets to have the food pulled up.
The ordeal lasted around 100 hours and in the end someone starting firing their weapons, no one yet is confirming who started it, and then finaly the police were able to break in and video footage can be seen through a partly open doorway of a policeman pummeling the gunman before he was fully arrested and removed from the building.
Stretchers were brought up for the girl and the boy who turned up and the other female was also detained for questioning. Sadly the girl was dead upon arrival at the hospital and the boy is in critical condition so it could be a double fatality.
The press is screaming for answers, all the politicians are trying to claim an advantage by suggesting new reforms for handling such situations and the public are questioning why the food given was not drugged to put the man to sleep or why crack marksmen did not take him out when he appeared at the window beside the other woman during talks with the police.
It is a dark day for anyone who knows either of the victims and certainly an image of Brazil that I cannot help but take away with me, even though I only witnessed it through the media and, thankfully, not personally.
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