A devoted daughter becomes a police officer to catch her father's killer. Twenty-five years later, when I finally helped catch the culprit, I broke down in tears.
Ghislain Silva de Deus, a resident of Roraima in northern Brazil, was just 9 years old when her father, Givardo Jose Vicente de Deus, was shot at point-blank range during a game of pool in 1999 over a $25 debt. It was.
His former friend Raimundo Alves Gomez, 60, was convicted of murder in 2013 but had been on the run for a long time until the victim's daughter discovered him last month.
“When I met him at the police station, I made sure to tell him who I was and that I was responsible for executing the warrant,” said Silva, now 36. He spoke to local news station Nova1..
“It brought tears to my eyes,” she said. “My emotions exploded into tears of relief because it seemed like this day would never come.”
Footage released by the police shows Gomez leaning back in a chair at the police station, looking devastated, and Silva calmly saying, “It's my fault you're here. You have to pay for it,'' he tells Gomez.
Gomez was later sentenced to 12 years in prison by a judge who upheld his earlier murder conviction, the paper said.
Silva de Deus said the killer left her and her five sisters orphaned because of a small debt their father was trying to pay off.
“he [Raimundo] My mother had to fight hard to raise us, leaving behind five children and a broken family. This incident may have led us down another path, but our mother always taught us to take the right path,'' she says, encouraging her to study hard in school. He added that it was done.
She started studying law at 18, worked as a lawyer and a prison warden before becoming a police officer in July, and immediately wanted to work in the homicide squad to track down her father's killer, she said. Ta.
She hopes her story inspires others, especially children orphaned by violence, to trust the justice system.
“Now I have a son, and the main thing I want to tell him is that if you do the right thing, you can achieve your dreams without anyone stepping on you,” she said.
“There is no need for revenge or wrongdoing to achieve justice.”
