Ferreira, Neguinho de Zé

Neguinho de Zé Ferreira,
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Name	Ferreira, Neguinho de Zé Gender: M
Birthname	Genildo Ferreira de França
born on	5 September 1969 at 04:00 (= 04:00 AM )
Place	São Gonçalo do Amarante (Rio Grande do Norte), Brazil, 5s4736, 35w1946
Timezone	-03 h3w (is standard time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	12°32' 00°02 Asc. 19°56'

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Biography

Brazilian spree killer who murdered 14 people in and around Santo Antônio do Potengi, Rio Grande do Norte on 21-22 May 1997. He was eventually cornered by police and committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest.

He served in the 7th Battalion of Combat Engineers (7o Batalhão de Engenharia de Combate) in Natal until January 1990, where he developed an affinity with weapons and was considered an excellent marksman. He owned a grocery store, was married twice and had three children.

According to his friends Ferreira was a man of unpredictable behaviour, who had sudden outbursts of anger, during which he would utter death threats. In 1995 he witnessed his son Iuri being run over and killed by a taxi, after which he was said to have changed for the worse. The driver of the taxi was never punished for the accident.

In September 1995 Ferreira and his wife Mônica separated for a month and she moved in with her aunt Maria das Dores Barbalho. According to Barbalho, Mônica told her family that she had decided to leave Ferreira, and to force the separation she invented the story that he was gay, claiming that she had caught him in flagrante in bed with Edilson Carlos do Nascimento. The rumour spread rapidly in Santo Antônio do Potengi and people, especially his father-in-law Baltazar Jorge de Sá, began talking behind his back about his alleged homosexuality. Ferreira never forgave his wife that she had spread the rumour, and frequently threatened her and her family with murder ever since, whenever they had an argument.

For four years Ferreira ran a bar, which he named "Iuri's bar" after his son's death, and was his main source of income, but when it got a reputation of being a haven for gays, his customers began to stay away and it eventually went bankrupt two months prior to the shooting. According to police the tavern was a hang-out for drug addicts, where Ferreira, who himself smoked marijuana, dealt drugs.

According to his friend Francisco de Assis Ramos dos Santos, 27-year-old Ferreira had planned the murders for over a year. Ferreira made a list of about 20 people he wanted to kill, either because they owed him money, or for spreading rumours that he was gay. During his rampage he wore a camouflage vest and was armed with a semi-automatic pistol with two 15-round magazines, as well as a .38-caliber revolver with suppressor, and had with him five boxes of ammunition with a total of 250 rounds, a hunting knife and a nylon bag. During five of the murders Ferreira was assisted by 22-year-old dos Santos, who was holding his victims' hands to their back.

The shooting started on 21 May some time between 4 PM and 6 PM in a remote area near São Gonçalo do Amarante, where Ferreira killed taxi driver Francisco Marques Carneiro, who was dating his ex-wife and made comments about him being gay, with a shot to the forehead. After putting the body in the trunk of the Fiat Palio, Ferreira drove to his friend Francisco de Assis Ramos dos Santos, where he arrived around 6 PM, inviting him, as well as Valdenice Ribeiro da Silva (Ferreira's girlfriend) to join him for a ride. Questioned after the murders why they had helped Ferreira and did not seize one of their multiple opportunities to flee, dos Santos and da Silva stated that they were intimidated by the gunman, who threatened to kill them and their families if they tried to escape.

That night and through the next morning Ferreira killed another 13 people. At 7:30 AM on 22 May 1997 Antônio Josemberg Campelo, who had also cast doubt on Ferreira's sexuality, was killed by Ferreira in the street with seven shots. He was the last victim. By that time Ferreira was chased by about 120 police officers, who were continuing to close in on him. He escaped police by hiding in a school and several homes, whose inhabitants he threatened with murder, until 12:10 PM when he was finally surrounded in a banana plantation near a ceramic tile factory just 2 km from his home. After letting da Silva and his daughter go, Ferreira shot himself in the chest with his revolver and engaged in a shootout with police, until he would die of his self-inflicted wound. Police afterward fired shots at his head until it was unrecognizable. Besides his guns he still had 104 rounds of unspent ammunition and the knife in his possession.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• homicide victim relationship with Anjos Pimenta, Elias dos (born 29 October 1968)

• homicide victim relationship with Bezerra, Francisco de Assis (born 15 January 1959)

• homicide victim relationship with Carlos de França, Mônica (born 12 June 1977)

• homicide victim relationship with Carlos do Nascimento, Edilson (born 10 March 1968)

• homicide victim relationship with Carlos Ribeiro, Tereza (born 7 May 1956)

• homicide victim relationship with Jorge de Sá, Baltazar (born 5 April 1954)

• homicide victim relationship with Marques Carneiro, Francisco (born 16 December 1960)

Events

• Death by Suicide 22 May 1997 (Gunshot wounds, age 27)
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Source Notes

Civil registry birth entry in hand from Sy Scholfield, copy on file. The place of birth is given as "Santo Antônio do Potengi" which Google Maps locates as part of São Gonçalo do Amarante.

Categories

• Traits : Personality : Temper

• Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Two)

• Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (Three)

• Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Drug business (Dealer)

• Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Homicide serial

• Personal : Death : Short Life less than 29 Yrs (Age 27)

• Personal : Death : Suicide

• Personal : Death : Suicide

• Personal : Death : Unusual

• Vocation : Business : Business owner (Grocery store, bar)

• Vocation : Military : Military service