Home invader is lynched by mob (multiple POVs)

Rio Largo, Brazil

February 5, 2023

Police are investigating a man who was beaten to death in Rio Largo, in the metropolitan area of Maceió, on Sunday. A video released by police on Monday (6) shows the lynching.

The images show the moment when two men on a motorcycle arrive in front of a house in Rio Largo. The croup descends and enters the property where a party was held. Soon after, several people run out of the house. During the confusion on the street, several men beat the man who had broken into the party.

According to the delegate Igor Diego, witnesses reported that when invading party, the rump of the bike announced the robbery and shot, hitting two people. The man was then lynched by family and friends of the people shot.

"This action happened starting with the conduct of the individual who enters with a firearm and shoots inside the party, hitting a person, and, that gets in serious condition and goes to the HGE and also another person scraping. Faced with this situation. The family and friends of those people who were hit fight back this aggression and start beating this individual, he said, bringing those scenes that have as a result the death and all the beating in the region of the head of this person" said the delegate.

The Civil Police investigates whether people who participated in the lynching acted for self-defense or committed a crime.

The man in the yellow shirt that appears in the vidoe is the driver of the motorcycle. He's on the run.

https://g1.globo.com/al/alagoas/noticia/2023/02/06/policia-investiga-caso-de-homem-espancado-ate-a-morte-em-rio-largo-al-video.ghtml