Police arrived to find the victim, João Benedito dos Santos, 24 years old, already dead.
Two people had broken into the house, killing the victim in front of his wife and five young children.
He had 10 stab wounds, with the murder weapon still lodged deep into his back in the last one.
João Prates Vitor da Silva, 20 years old, was killed in a garage where he worked. Witnesses said, two men arrived on a motorcycle and open fired on João with a shotgun.
A strange way to get murdered:
Antonio de Sousa Oliveira Neto, aged 44, was attacked by 4 men.
He was shot in the shoulder and hit in the head with a hoe.