Joaõ Morel, 47, was shot about 47 times in the María Victoria neighborhood of Pedro Juan Caballero. He was taken to a hospital in Punta Porã but did not survive. The suspects fled in a gray Toyota Allion.
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Chapista brasileño asesinado a balazos en Pedro Juan Caballero en un presunto sicariato.
The city of Pedro Juan Caballero, in the department of Amambay, was the scene of three notable events in May 2026: a fire that destroyed the home of an 85-year-old woman, the death of the city's oldest woman at age 110, and the shooting murder of a Brazilian mechanic, in a case treated as possible contract killing.