Another attempted femicide. We are seeking justice.
Na véspera de Natal, Tainara Souza, de 31 anos, morreu após vinte e cinco dias de luta em um hospital de São Paulo — consequência de um ato deliberado de violência praticado por seu ex-companheiro, que a atropelou e arrastou por mais de um quilômetro na Marginal Tietê. O que se seguiu foi uma sequência de cirurgias, amputações e sofrimento que nenhuma instituição conseguiu interromper a tempo. Ela deixa dois filhos e uma pergunta que o Brasil ainda não soube responder: até quando?
- Um homem pegou um carro e usou como arma depois de ver sua ex-companheira com outro homem em um bar — a violência foi intencional, calculada e filmada.
- As imagens que circularam nas redes sociais mostraram Tainara presa sob o veículo em movimento, tornando impossível ignorar a brutalidade do que havia acontecido.
- Durante vinte e cinco dias, ela passou por traqueostomia, cirurgias reconstrutivas e duas amputações das pernas — o corpo suportando o que a mente mal consegue imaginar.
- O ex-companheiro foi preso na cena do crime e o caso é investigado como tentativa de feminicídio, com a classificação confirmada pela Secretaria de Segurança Pública de São Paulo.
- Tainara morreu por volta das sete da noite de 24 de dezembro, deixando um filho de doze anos e uma filha de sete — órfãos no dia em que o mundo celebrava.
Tainara Souza tinha 31 anos quando morreu na noite de 24 de dezembro, após vinte e cinco dias internada. Tudo começou em 29 de novembro, na Marginal Tietê, uma das vias expressas mais movimentadas de São Paulo, quando seu ex-companheiro a atropelou com o carro e a arrastou por mais de um quilômetro. Ele havia acabado de vê-la com outro homem em um bar. O que fez a seguir não foi impulso — foi escolha.
As lesões foram devastadoras. Tainara precisou de traqueostomia para respirar, passou por cirurgia reconstrutiva e teve as duas pernas amputadas em procedimentos separados nos dias que antecederam sua morte. Foi atendida primeiro em um hospital municipal e depois transferida para o Hospital das Clínicas, onde permaneceu até o fim. Na tarde do último dia, a equipe médica chamou a família para se despedir. Ela morreu horas depois, deixando um filho de doze anos e uma filha de sete.
O agressor foi encontrado no local do crime. Ao ser detido, tentou tomar a arma de um policial e foi baleado no braço antes de ser preso. O caso foi registrado no 73º Distrito Policial, no Jaçanã, e investigado como tentativa de feminicídio — classificação que reconhece o caráter intencional do ato. Um de seus advogados resumiu nas redes sociais: 'Mais uma tentativa de feminicídio. Estamos buscando justiça.'
A morte de Tainara reacende um debate que o Brasil carrega há anos: sobre a violência sistemática contra as mulheres, sobre os homens que a praticam e sobre a capacidade — ou incapacidade — das instituições de proteger quem está em risco. Ela lutou por vinte e cinco dias. Sua família assistiu a cada procedimento. E ainda assim, ela morreu na véspera de Natal, deixando duas crianças para trás.
Tainara Souza was 31 years old when she died on the evening of December 24th, Christmas Eve, after spending twenty-five days in a hospital bed. She had been struck by a car on November 29th on the Marginal Tietê, one of São Paulo's busiest expressways, and dragged more than a kilometer down the road. The driver was her ex-partner. He has been arrested.
The attack left injuries so severe that Tainara required a tracheostomy to breathe, reconstructive surgery to repair her body, and two separate amputations of her legs—one performed the Saturday before her death, another on the Monday. She was first taken to a municipal hospital, then transferred to the Hospital das Clínicas, where she remained until the end. According to her family, the medical team called them in at lunchtime on her final day to say goodbye. She died around seven in the evening. She leaves behind a son who is twelve and a daughter who is seven.
The sequence of procedures and amputations speaks to the violence of what happened to her. This was not an accident. According to the investigation, Tainara and her ex-partner had argued at a bar after he saw her with another man. He got into his car and drove it into her. Video that circulated on social media showed her pinned beneath the vehicle as it continued moving down the expressway—images that made the brutality impossible to look away from.
When police arrived at the scene, they found the man who had hit her. During the arrest, he allegedly tried to take an officer's weapon. The officers responded by shooting him in the arm. He was taken into custody. The case was registered at the 73rd Police District in the Jaçanã neighborhood and is being investigated as attempted femicide—a classification that reflects the intentional nature of the act, confirmed by São Paulo's Public Security Secretariat.
Tainara's legal representatives have been vocal about what they see in this case. One of her attorneys, Fabio Costa, posted on social media: "Another attempted femicide. We are seeking justice." The words carry the weight of someone who understands this was not a moment of rage that spiraled out of control, but a deliberate act designed to harm, to destroy, to kill.
Her death reopens a conversation that Brazil has been having for years—about the scale of violence directed at women, about the men who commit it, and about whether the institutions meant to protect people are moving fast enough or far enough. Tainara spent twenty-five days fighting for her life in a hospital. Her family spent those twenty-five days watching her endure procedure after procedure. And then she died anyway, on Christmas Eve, leaving two children without their mother.
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Another attempted femicide. We are seeking justice.— Fabio Costa, Tainara's attorney
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What made this case classified as attempted femicide rather than just a hit-and-run?
The investigation found it was intentional. He saw her with another man, they argued, and then he deliberately drove into her. That's not an accident—that's a choice to harm her because of who she was with or what she represented to him.
The video circulating online—what did it show that made people react so strongly?
It showed her trapped under the car while it was still moving down the highway. Not a moment of impact and then stillness, but her body being dragged. It made the deliberateness visible in a way that's hard to ignore.
Twenty-five days in the hospital, multiple amputations. Was there ever a point where recovery seemed possible?
The medical team kept working—traqueostomy, reconstructive surgery, two separate amputations. But injuries that severe, that require that much intervention, they tell you something about the force involved. The body can only endure so much.
What happens to the ex-partner now?
He's in custody. The case is being investigated as attempted femicide, which is a serious charge under Brazilian law. But the investigation is still ongoing. What matters now is whether the legal system moves as deliberately as he did.
And the children—what do we know about them?
A twelve-year-old boy and a seven-year-old girl. They're orphaned now. That's the part that sits heaviest, I think. The violence didn't end with Tainara's death. It extended into their lives in a way that will shape everything that comes next.