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Brazil man ‘confesses to 39 murders’

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) – Brazilian police have arrested a man who they say has confessed to at least 39 murders over a three-year period.

Police said the 26-year-old security guard Thiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha targeted homeless people, women and homosexuals.

He was arrested in the central Brazilian city of Goiania by a special police team investigating the murders.

Police said he often demanded valuables from his victims before shooting them and leaving without their possessions.

A police official who had been present at the interrogations told a Brazilian TV channel the killer called his victims by the numbers 1 to 39.

“We have been shocked by his coldness,” the official said.

He never knew those he targeted, police said, and acted out of an inner “fury” that he felt “against everything”, which only subsided when he committed murder.

He would feel remorse after killings, police said, which only fuelled his anger more.

The alleged suspect had also described accurately the locations of each murder and the emotions he had felt at the time, and police said he fired on his victims while cruising the streets.

Investigators said they were sifting through evidence, including closed-circuit TV footage, and had seized weapons and stolen license plates from his grandmother’s home.

He is also being investigated over 90 robberies of shops, pharmacies and lottery outlets.

Source: BBC

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