A woman whose father was shot to death when she was nine years old became a police officer to avenge him and arrested his killer 25 years after the murder.
Gislayne Silva de Deus, 36, helped arrest the killer of her father Givaldo José Vicente de Deus, 35, who was shot at point-blank range over a £20 debt in Boa Vista, Brazil, in February 1999. according to local media. .
Wanted man Raimundo Alves Gomes, 60, had been on the run since 2016 before being arrested in Boa Vista, capital of the Brazilian state of Roraima, on September 25.
Gislayne was just a child when her father was brutally murdered and began studying law when she was 18 to become a lawyer. He also took the police entrance exam and became an officer, even working in a prison.
“When I was a prison (police officer), I always imagined (the killer) arriving there to serve his sentence,” he told local media.
She later joined the police as a clerk, where she was assigned to the General Homicide Division (DGH) and tirelessly collected information on her father’s killer, eventually locating him before he was arrested.
Gislayne Silva de Deus (pictured), 36, helped arrest the killer of her father Givaldo José Vicente de Deus, 35, who was shot at point-blank range over a £20 debt in Boa Vista, Brazil , in February 1999, according to local media
Wanted man Raimundo Alves Gomes (pictured), 60, had been on the run since 2016 before being arrested in Boa Vista, capital of the Brazilian state of Roraima, on September 25.
Footage showed Gislayne finally coming face to face with her father’s killer at the police station after she helped arrest him.
Alves Gomes was convicted of murder in 2013, but did not go on the run until 2016, after an arrest warrant was issued for him, some 14 years after committing the crime.
The brutal murder took place on February 16, 1999 in the city’s Asa Branca neighborhood while the victim was playing pool with a friend.
The killer turned up to collect the £20 debt and Gislayne said her father owned a supermarket and the killer was one of his suppliers.
He said his father had tried to settle the debt by offering the killer a freezer, but he refused and left the scene before returning about 30 minutes later armed with a gun.
The couple got into a physical fight and his father was fatally shot. He was rushed to hospital but died from his injuries.
Gislayne has three sisters and one brother, the youngest of whom was only two years old when her father was killed.
Footage showed Gislayne finally coming face to face with her father’s killer at the police station after she helped arrest him.
The brutal murder of Givaldo José Vicente de Deus (pictured above with two of his children, including Gislayne, right) took place on February 16, 1999 in the city’s Asa Branca neighborhood while the victim was playing tag. billiards with a friend.
The killer fled the scene before being arrested by police later that day. However, he was inextricably released from police custody before his trial.
Even more inexplicable, the Roraima Court only issued an arrest warrant for the murderer three years after the conviction.
Local media said the statute of limitations for arresting those accused of homicide is 20 years in Brazil, meaning police still had approximately six years to track down his father’s killer.
Alves Gomes was presented before a judge on September 26 and his sentence was confirmed. He was then sent to prison.
‘With his arrest I cleansed my soul and that of my entire family. It was the end of a cycle. “Today we have peace and the feeling that justice was done.”
He added: “This will not bring our father back, but (the murderer) will serve the sentence he should have served many years ago.”
