Thiago Klimtz de Abreu Pessoa Wiki – Thiago Klimtz de Abreu Pessoa Biography
A fugitive Brazilian police officer who fled the country after being convicted of murder for killing a young law student outside a nightclub has been arrested in Florida after ten years. The arrest of Omar Assaf Jr, 42, comes five years after the victim’s mother tracked him down on social media.
Assaf was taken into custody by the US Marshals Service on Tuesday, August 23, according to extradition files obtained by The Daily Beast. The suspect, a former police officer from the city of São José dos Pinhais, has been accused of shooting 19-year-old Thiago Klimtz de Abreu Pessoa with three bullets outside of working hours. The murder was an apparent case of misidentification.
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Assaf was sentenced to 16 years in prison by a judge in Brazil. However, he soon disappeared, spending the last 10 years in Kissimmee, Florida. His arrest marks the end of the manhunt for the killer of the notorious murder known in Brazil as the “Du Bar Harmonia massacre,” named after the place where the murder occurred.
On the night of August 16, 2009, Assaf visited the Harmonia bar in the Bigorilho district of Curitiba with a girlfriend. He reportedly brought his Taurus PT semi-automatic pistol to the pub, which is referred to as ‘Club Harmonia’ in US court documents. Assaf’s friend said that at some point during the evening, an acquaintance of hers, Diego Targino Marchiore, tried to attack his dance partner. That’s when Assaf stepped in and pinned Targino Marchiore in an armbar. Security guards then ejected him from the scene, according to a memo filed by US prosecutors in federal court in Orlando. Targino Marchiore, once outside, began to argue with one of the doormen. A witness later testified that he threw a punch and that the doorman pulled out a gun.
At that moment, Klemtz de Abreu Pessoa and his friends were also outside the bar. This particular group was asked to leave after a member allegedly “tampered with the lock on one of the bar’s refrigerators,” the prosecutors’ memo says. Targino Marchiore, who was not related to Klemtz de Abreu Pessoa, was “bleeding and bruised,” one of Klemtz de Abreu Pessoa’s friends, Wesley De Souza Jaques Pereira, said in court. Jaques Pereira suggested that he and his friends leave because he felt problems. As they started to leave, they heard gunshots, Jaques Pereira said.
“After hearing the shots, Jaques Pereira, Klemtz de Abreu Pessoa, and another friend headed toward his car,” the memo says. “As they approached the car, Assaf appeared and started shooting. The three men, including the victim, began to run.” Then they shot Klemtz de Abreu Pessoa. “Jaques Pereira attempted to return to assist Klemtz de Abreu Pessoa, but Assaf began firing in his direction,” the memo says. “Jaques Pereira then went into hiding. Shortly after, Jaques Pereira heard two more shots. His friends went to Klemtz de Abreu Pessoa in [an] attempt to rescue him, but he was already dead.” Klemtz de Abreu Pessoa was shot in the legs, chest and head. In fact, one of the bullets had been fired at close range, according to Brazilian authorities. Klemtz de Abreu Pessoa “had a resemblance” to Targino Marchiore, Jaques Pereira later testified in court, stating that he believed that Assaf had confused them.
Brazilian investigators who arrived at the scene were unable to find Assaf, but he later showed up at a Paraná State Police facility and handed over his service weapon. However, it was discovered that he had removed the magazine and ammunition from the gun. This led officials to suspect that Assaf was hiding evidence.
Prosecutors in Brazil charged him in 2009 with aggravated homicide for the murder of Klemtz de Abreu Pessoa. Assaf’s trial began in 2012, and a jury found him guilty the following year. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison, but was released on bail. Shortly after, he disappeared, only to be caught again recently. A federal judge in Orlando sent Assaf to jail pending an extradition hearing on Wednesday, August 24.
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