A gun hidden under the pillow, three shots, then a lie about robbery
Em Curitiba, a morte de um jovem de 23 anos que foi buscar a filha na casa da ex-companheira revelou, quase um mês depois, não o crime aleatório que parecia ser, mas um assassinato nascido da proximidade e do ciúme. O atual namorado da mulher disparou três vezes enquanto ela, depois, construiu uma mentira para encobrir o que havia acontecido. A investigação desfez a narrativa falsa peça por peça, lembrando que os crimes mais íntimos são também os que mais tentam se disfarçar de acaso.
- Um homem foi morto com três tiros enquanto tentava levar a filha para a escola — um momento ordinário que se tornou fatal em segundos.
- A ex-companheira acionou a polícia com uma história inventada de latrocínio, desviando as investigações por quase um mês.
- Inconsistências no relato da mulher acenderam alertas nos investigadores, que passaram a buscar mandados de prisão temporária.
- O casal foi encontrado em um apartamento com porções de droga, e ambos confessaram — ele os disparos, ela a mentira.
- O que foi apresentado como violência de estranhos revelou-se um crime enraizado no fim recente de um relacionamento e em uma arma escondida sob o travesseiro.
Na manhã de 11 de maio, Gustavo Lourenço dos Santos, de 23 anos, chegou a uma casa em Curitiba para buscar a enteada para a escola. Encontrou a ex-companheira acompanhada de outro homem. A separação tinha ocorrido dias antes — ela havia pedido o fim do relacionamento e já estava com outra pessoa. A discussão foi imediata. O novo namorado, que dormia na casa, sacou uma arma escondida sob o travesseiro e atirou três vezes. Gustavo morreu. O homem fugiu.
A mulher, de 26 anos, foi quem chamou a polícia — mas com uma versão fabricada. Disse que a vítima havia sido morta durante um roubo, que alguém havia invadido a casa para levar uma bicicleta. A narrativa de um crime de oportunidade encobria o que de fato era: um assassinato nascido do ciúme e da ruptura de um relacionamento.
A mentira durou quase um mês. Os investigadores, porém, foram encontrando falhas — no tempo, nos detalhes, no motivo que não combinava com o método. O delegado Ivo Viana explicou que as inconsistências no relato da mulher foram suficientes para buscar os mandados de prisão temporária.
O casal foi localizado em um apartamento na quarta-feira, 10 de junho. No local, a polícia também encontrou porções de droga. Ambos confessaram: ele admitiu a arma escondida, os três disparos e a fuga; ela admitiu o boletim de ocorrência falso. O que havia sido apresentado como violência aleatória revelou-se algo muito mais deliberado — um crime gestado no interior de um relacionamento que acabara de se desfazer.
On the morning of May 11th in Curitiba, a 23-year-old man named Gustavo Lourenço dos Santos arrived at a house to pick up his stepdaughter for school. He found his ex-partner there with another man. The conversation turned to argument. The man reached under the pillow where he'd hidden a gun and fired three times. Gustavo died. His ex-partner called the police and told them he'd been killed during a robbery—that someone had broken in to steal a bicycle.
It was a lie that lasted almost a month.
The couple was arrested on Wednesday, June 10th, after investigators found the story didn't hold. Delegate Ivo Viana explained to RPC, the local Globo affiliate, that inconsistencies in the woman's account had prompted them to seek temporary arrest warrants. When police found the couple in an apartment, they also discovered drug portions on the premises. Neither the woman nor her current partner had their names officially released.
According to police records, the 23-year-old man confessed that he'd been sleeping at the woman's house that morning. Gustavo and the woman had separated just days before—she had asked for the split and mentioned she was already involved with someone else. When Gustavo came to collect his stepdaughter, the confrontation was immediate. The man with the gun didn't hesitate. Three shots. Then he ran.
The woman, 26 years old, was the one who called it in. She constructed a narrative of invasion and theft, a crime of opportunity rather than what it was: a killing born from jealousy and proximity, from a man with a weapon under a pillow and a relationship that had just ended. The police listened, took notes, and began to look closer. The details didn't align. The timeline didn't fit. The motive didn't match the method.
Nearly a month passed before the couple was brought in for questioning. Both confessed. The man admitted to hiding the weapon, to the three shots, to the flight. The woman admitted to the false report. What had seemed like a random act of violence—a robbery gone wrong, a stranger's crime—was revealed as something more intimate and more deliberate: a killing rooted in the wreckage of a relationship that had just come apart.
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She had asked for the separation and mentioned she was already involved with another man— Delegate Ivo Viana, describing the circumstances to police
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Why would she lie about it being a robbery? That seems like the kind of story that falls apart immediately.
It might have seemed like the safest version in the moment. If she said her ex showed up and they argued, she'd be admitting he was there, that there was conflict. A robbery is impersonal—it's not about her, not about the new relationship, not about the separation.
But the police figured it out in a month. What made the inconsistencies so obvious?
The details. Who breaks into a house to steal a bicycle? Why that specific item? How does a robbery happen when someone's there to pick up a child? Those threads don't weave together. Once investigators started pulling, the whole story unraveled.
The man had the gun hidden under the pillow before Gustavo even arrived. That suggests premeditation.
It does. He wasn't defending himself in a moment of panic. The weapon was already there, already positioned. Whether he knew Gustavo was coming or just kept it close—that's the difference between a crime of passion and something more calculated.
And they both confessed once they were arrested.
Yes. Sometimes the lie is harder to maintain than the truth, especially when the evidence doesn't support it and you're sitting across from someone trained to see through stories.