Shock: She saved her husband from suicide, but he killed her days later

A brutal police case shakes the city of Paraná, Brazil. A 34 year old woman She was killed by her husband in front of her young children. The young Gabrielle de Lima Rodrigues was stabbed to death by her partner identified with the acronym GFR Days earlier, the woman had saved the life of the femicide, preventing him from committing suicide.

This was confirmed by Alexandre Macorin, local police chief of Toledo, Paraná, Brazil. Apparently, the man was going through a deep depression resulting from an imminent separation from his partner. In that context, he tried to take his own life, but Gabrielle managed to prevent him and save him. Some time later, the young mother was murdered by her partner.

According to authorities, the suspect assaulted Gabrielle in 2019, which led her to request a protective order. Subsequently the two became closer and the victim asked for the precautionary measure to be revoked. However, a new order was placed at the beginning of March this year. They were in the process of separating.

According to the report, a neighbor called military officers around 10.30pm after hearing a child desperately crying for help. reporting that the father was attacking the mother and was about to kill her. The neighbor attempted to intervene by entering the house, where he found the body of Gabrielle’s father, identified by the initials VJR, lying on the floor.

The femicide fatally attacked his wife and fled.

According to local authorities, the neighbor took the children who were in the house to his home and called the police and the Emergency Assistance Mobile Service (SAMU).

Once on site, the officers found the bodies of the woman and her father and heard moans coming from the back of the house. After entering, the team saw the suspect with a knife stuck in his chest. “After communicating with him, the suspect removed the knife from his chest and threw it on the ground, which was safely picked up by the police team,” according to the police file.

The man was taken to hospital and detained. Police verified that the murdered woman had a perimeter fence in place.

The death of Gabrielle de Lima Rodrigues was mourned by the municipal secretary of Education of Toledo, where she worked as a teacher at the Municipal Ecological School Professor Ari Arcassio Gossler.

Brazil, record number of feminicides

Brazil recorded an average of four femicides per day in 2023, or a record 1,463, indicates a study published two weeks ago.

According to data collected by the Brazilian NGO Forum of Public Security (FBSP) based on police records, this number represents an increase of 1.6% compared to 2022.

Data on femicides began to be collected in 2015, when a Brazilian law defined femicide as the death of a woman “caused by domestic or family violence due to her status” as a woman. In total, in this country of 203 million inhabitants, between 2015 and 2023, 10,655 women were victims of this type of crime.

“We cannot normalize the deaths of more than 10,000 women killed in less than a decade for the simple fact of being women,” Samira Bueno, director of the FBSP, lamented in a statement. “The issue has been widely debated by civil society, but this is not enough to encourage the reduction of these crimes that are committed daily in the country”, she added.