Marcelo Arruda, a Workers’ Party (PT) official and municipal guard, was celebrating his birthday, when the suspect Jorge Jose da Rocha Guaranho entered the private event and shot him dead.
A Brazilian official from the country’s leftist opposition party was assassinated by a federal prison guard who barged into the official’s birthday celebration Saturday and gunned him down while shouting support for right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro.
Arruda — who was also apparently armed — opened fire in return, killing Guaranho, the Workers’ Party said in a statement. Guaranho first entered the party, waving a gun around as he shouted insults at guests and sang Bolsonaro’s praises. He then left, but returned about 15 to 20 minutes later and pointed a gun directly at Arruda, according to party attendee and witness Aluizio Palmar, a Brazilian journalist.President of the Workers’ Party Gleisi Hoffmann mourns next to the coffin of Marcelo Arruda.Both men opened fire and struck and killed each other, according to the PT statement, police and security footage.
Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is the PT’s candidate and currently leads Bolsonaro, who is running for reelection, in the polls.
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