RIO DE JANEIRO – The mayor of the Brazilian town of Goianesia do Para, Joao Gomes, was murdered Sunday night while he was attending a wake, local media reported. He was 62.
Gomes, popularly known as “Russo,” was attending a wake downtown in the municipality in the northern Brazilian state of Para, when two people wearing helmets that covered their faces, entered the funeral home and shot him six times in the head, according to witnesses cited in the local daily O Liberal.
The mayor died on the spot, while the killers got away on a motorcycle.
Police are investigating the possible motives for the crime.
Gomes, who belonged to the Party of the Republic, or PR, and was serving his first term in office, planned to run in the local elections to be held next October in Brazil.
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