Brazil man dies after shocking video shows ‘wife setting him on fire in the middle of a store before watching him run out in flames’

• André Chapeta died Friday morning at a Rio de Janeiro hospital from burns he suffered after he was allegedly set on fire by his wife, Ana María Paixaõ
• On Monday, the 50-year-old victim was sitting at a table inside the fish market Paixaõ doused him with flammable liquid and flicked a lighter
• Paixaõ was taken to a police station Thursday morning, but was released later in the day because a judge had not approved an arrest warrant 

This is the horrifying moment a man’s wife allegedly flew into a jealous rage and set him on fire at a fish market she owns in Brazil.

André Chapeta, 50, died on Friday less than a week after sustaining devastating burn injuries.

The incident took place Monday at a store in Rio de Janeiro when Ana María Paixaõ spotted Chapeta sitting at a table.

A surveillance camera showed Paixaõ walking past the counter and appearing to open a bottle before dousing a flammable liquid over his body.

The woman allegedly then flicked a lighter and set him on fire.

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André Chapeta (left) died Friday morning, four days after his wife, Ana María Paixaõ  (right), doused him with a flammable liquid and set him on fire. Paixaõ was picked up by police Thursday morning, but was released at night because a court had not signed off on an arrest warrant

Ana María Paixaõ stairs at her husband, André Chapeta, while he was covered in flames moments after she set him on fire inside her fish market in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. Chapeta died Friday from the injuries he suffered

Chapeta raced inside the fish market’s stock room as he was covered in flames.

He was rushed to Getúlio Vargas Hospital, where he underwent treatment for burns to 92 percent of his body before he succumbing to his injuries Friday.

Paixaõ was picked up by police Thursday morning, but was released during the night after a judge failed to sign off an arrest warrant.

Civil Police chief Flávio Ferreira told Brazilian news outlet G1 that he believes the incident was motivated by the woman’s jealousy over her husband.

He told channel R7 that the couple’s 30-year-old relationship was allegedly marked by bouts of domestic violence.

André Chapeta suffered burns to 92 percent of his body after his wife set him on fire Monday inside a Rio de Janeiro fish market she owns

Ana María Paixaõ walks out of her fish market stock room area with a bottle containing a flammable liquid she used to set her husband on fire. She told police investigators that she was defending herself after he had beaten her, a claim they have rejected

Ana María Paixaõ stands near her husband, André Chapeta, before she poured a flammable liquid on him and set him on fire Monday night at a fish market she owns in Rio de Janeiro

The Rio de Janeiro Civil Police said the couple’s 30-year-old relationship was filled with domestic violence incidents

Paixaõ told investigators that she had been beaten prior to setting Chapeta on fire and reacted in self-defense, an allegation which they rejected.

‘What she says is not what the image shows. The image shows the victim sitting in a chair. She arrives, coldly, throws the liquid and sets him on fire,’ Ferreira said. 

‘She was not at that moment in a vulnerable situation, she was not in a situation in which she would be imminently attacked.

‘On the contrary, as I said, he was sitting and posed no risk to her physical integrity at that moment.’

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