(Updated) Montes Old / Aljustrel: Alleged domestic violence in GNR and leaving home, may be in crime origin.
Alleged domestic violence, to seize weapons and home abandonment in crime origin where the husband killed his wife and then committed suicide.
A complaint made on Saturday morning by Eduarda Silva, or against husband, Jose Luis Silva, na GNR the Aljustrel, for domestic violence, It led to the seizure of two shotguns to suspect, and the wife of leaving home, are the reasons that have given rise to the woman's murder, followed by the man suicide, in the village of Old Montes, county Aljustrel.
Although warned by GNR not to return home without the presence of the military, yesterday morning about the 12,20 hours, the woman went to the house on Road Aljustrel, in Old Montes, where he was the youngest daughter of the couple, Clara, of 19 year old, and two granddaughters, descendants of the eldest daughter, not counting that her husband would be home. Besides the two girls, the couple had another child.
Presumably drawn to a possible amicable split, the woman entered the house yard with the jeep and on his way home, the man who was hiding, to which all indicated in a boss's van, He made a shot with a shotgun closed pipes, Eduarda fatally in the chest, then he turned the gun on himself and made another fatal shooting in the belly area.
Eduarda, 48 year old, employee of Eurest in Aljustrel service area on the A2, have been José Luis attacks target, 53 year old, responsible agricultural House Mendonça, on Friday night, which led her to resort to Guard. Immediately the military made a waiting room next to the couple and when the suspect arrived demanded the surrender of weapons he had at home, what the man, segundo a GNR, "obeyed, without any gesture sketch of repulsion ".
Eduarda left the room and went to family home and during the day Sunday José Luis have tried, via mobile phone, the woman returned home, which did not happen.
a neighbor, who asked not to be identified, Lidador told the News (LN) I heard two shots, but I did not care because "I thought it was bombs to scare away the birds. They knocked on the door and was Clara, the daughter, crying and asking for help. I got to the backyard and saw the two bodies, with shots to the chest, a pool of blood. I called the 112 ", He told the distressed man. "It reminded me of a case like here in the village", finished.
Military GNR Aljustrel and Ferreira do Alentejo attended and staked the crime scene. The couple's death was confirmed by medical VMER Beja, with the Health Commissioner of Aljustrel, given the order to remove the bodies, after gathering evidence of the Judicial Police of Faro Board, that after the skills picked up the murder weapon (barrel in the gun marked with a circle in the picture above).
Five hours after the murder and suicide, the bodies were removed by the Aljustrel Fire and Ferreira do Alentejo, to the Medico-Legal Office of Beja Hospital, where are necropsied.
Alferes Diogo Barreiros (commander of Detachment of Aljustrel)
“This was a murder-suicide, for reasons that PJ vai investigate. We received a call via 112 and when our soldiers came here they found two people injured with firearms shots. After it was confirmed that they were corpses. There was a complaint of the victim on Saturday on domestic violence, followed by an arms seizure. The weapon that the suspect carried out the shooting was not in his name”.
Armando Brown (witness)
"I was about fifty meters of housing and in a short time I heard two shots, But I did not think a thing like this. When I reached the door, I was already a neighbor on the phone to alert the authorities and the two bodies on the ground. They were shot in the chest, and both had immediate death. There were two pools of blood. Then came the Guard and closed all ".
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
