Rio de Janeiro police find bodies of four dead drug traffickers who ‘killed’ three surgeons and wounded another in botched hit job
- Phillip ‘Lesk’ Motta and Ryan Nunes are two of the four drug dealers who were found dead in two vehicles in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday night
- Motta and Nunes are linked to the attack at a hotel bar Thursday that left three surgeons dead and another wounded
- Investigators said the dealers confused one of the doctors with taillon da Alcântara, the member of a Rio de Janeiro militia feuding with the drug gang
The dead bodies of two drug dealers suspected of mistakenly murdering three orthopedic surgeons and wounding another at a hotel bar in Brazil were found in two separate vehicles on Thursday night.
Rio de Janeiro police identified the two suspects as Phillip ‘Lesk’ Motta and Ryan Nunes.
They also discovered the bodies of two other dealers in a separate car. They were not linked to the shooting.
Authorities are still searching for two other suspects, Bruno Pinto and Juan Malta, for their involvement in the shooting which took place outside the Windsor Hotel in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Barra da Tijuca on Thursday before 1am.
Dr. Marcos de Andrade, 63, Dr. Diego Bomfim, 35, Dr. Perseu Ribeiro, 33 and Dr. Daniel Sonnewend, 32, were waiting to pay their bill when the gunmen pulled up in a SUV and opened fire.
De Andrade, Bomfim and Ribeiro were killed and Sonnewend survived after he was shot 14 times. He is recovering at an area hospital after undergoing a 10-hour surgery.
He posted a video on social media Friday morning and said,’ Guys, I’m fine, see? Everything is fine, thank God. Just a few fractures, but it’s going to be okay. We’re going to get out of this together. Thanks for your concern. Thank you!’
Investigators believe the four men were executed because they had mistaken Ribeiro for Taillon da Alcântara – a member of a Rio de Janeiro militia.
Phillip ‘Lesk’ Motta (left) and Ryan Nunes (right) are two of the four drug dealers suspected by Rio de Janeiro police of killing three surgeons and wounding another during an attack in which they confused one of the doctors who was killed with the member of a militia they were seeking to murder
Dr. Marcos de Andrade (left), Dr. Diego Bomfim (second from left), Dr. Daniel Sonnewend (second from right) and Dr. Perseu Ribeiro (right) took a group photo moments before gunmen opened fire on them at a bar outside the Windsor Hotel in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Barra da Tijuca. Dr. Sonnewend is the only doctor who survived
The drug dealers reportedly received a phone call indicating that their murder target, militia member Taillon de Alcântara (pictured) was at a hotel bar in Rio de Janeiro. However, the assailants executed three surgeons and wounded another. One of the doctors who died resembled de Alcântara
Globo TV A Civil Police task force combating militias and drug dealing groups intercepted a phone moments before the shooting in which Malta tells the gunmen that da Alcântara is at the bar.
The drug gang has been searching for da Alcântara over his alleged involvement with the killing of one of Motta’s associates September 16.
Da Alcântara was sentenced in July 2021 to eight years and four months in prison for criminal organization, but was moved to house arrest in March and was released on parole on September 29.
A hotel surveillance camera captured the moment the suspects hopped out of a white Fiat Pulse and fired around 30 shots in a span of about 20 seconds.
A bar customer runs runs away from the Rio de Janeiro hotel bar where gunmen executed three orthopedic surgeons and wounded a fourth Thursday
Dr. Perseu Ribeiro one of the three doctors who were murdered at a hotel bar in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday had just turned 33 two days earlier
Dr. Diego Bomfim (pictured), one of the three doctors who were shot dead, is the brother of São Paulo Congresswoman Sâmia Bomfim
Dr. Marcos de Andrade died on the scene after he was shot by gunmen at a bar outside a Rio de Janeiro hotel on Thursday. The surgeon, one of three who were killed, was 63 years old
Da Alcântara’s home is located on the same avenue as the Windsor Hotel and frequently visited the bar.
His father, Dalmir Alcântara, is the leader of the militia that has been operating in the west side of Rio de Janeiro for about 30 years and has a long-running feud with the network the drug dealers were a part of.
The surgeons were in Rio de Janeiro to attend the 6th International Conference of Minimally Invasive Foot and Ankle Surgery, which started Thursday.
They had taken a selfie and shared on social media just moments before the barbaric shooting.
Authorities initially were looking into whether there was a political motivation for the shooting because Bomfim’s sister, Sâmia Bomfim, is a Congresswoman in the state of Sâo Paulo. Her husband, Glauber Braga, is a Rio de Janeiro Congressman.
‘We, the family, will ask, through our lawyers, for access to the investigation data, as the law allows us, so that we can have access to the information and closely monitor all lines and possibilities of investigation by the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police,’ Congresswoman Bomfim told G1.
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