Armed man dressed in black “walks in, shoots repeatedly, then leaves”
Police today are trying to find the motive for the point blank execution of a 28-year-old man in a late night café in Cacém.
According to eye-witnesses, a tall man, dressed in black, with a hoodie over his head and obscuring his face, walked into the Blá Blá café in Bairro Alegre on Sunday night and went straight up to the bar, where his victim was “quietly standing at the counter”.
Without saying a word, he pulled out a pistol, pulled the trigger repeatedly, and then left “without anyone noticing”.
With all other clients present “running for cover”, no-one can be certain even in which direction the shooter made off.
By the time people realised the danger had passed, ‘Domingos’ lay dying on the café floor. He had been shot twice in the chest and once under the armpit, writes Correio da Manhã today.
PSP police were alerted; rushed to the scene with an INEM medical emergency team, but there was nothing that could be done to save the young man.
“Witnesses were incapable of giving any relevant detail about the shooter to PJ inspectors”, who arrived shortly afterwards, says CM. “The few that remained in the area of the café were either too drunk or too under the effect of drugs to give any kind of coherent statement.
“The owner of the premises was also not much help given that she did not see the killer.
“The description is of a tall man, dressed in black, with a hood on his head. Nothing more”.
Coincidentally, the Blá Blá café was the scene of a previous murder, in 2022, when former Cape Verdean owner Octávio Correia, 52, was knifed to death by a young man he had ‘expelled from the café’ after the pair had had words.
Correia’s killer ‘fled the scene’ but was arrested months later in France, where he had gone to hide out with relatives.
Now, the hunt is on for the killer of Domingos (no other name given).
Source: Correio da Manhã
