A mass brawl at a nightclub in the Midwest Santa Catarina municipality of Tangara ended in the death of Prime Minister (Military Police) soldier Marcos Alberto Bursanello, 34. A police officer was brutally attacked and shot in the leg while trying to sort out the confusion on Friday night (2).

Soldier Marcos Burzanello died while trying to avoid a fight in a nightclub. – Photo: Personal Archive/Disclosure/ND

According to the prime minister, a group of people in the club’s bathroom could start a fight. Security asked the participants in the incident to leave the scene. However, the confusion continued, and the attackers attacked the guard.

Noticing the commotion, Burzanello’s soldier, who was off duty and watching the show on site, intervened in an attempt to calm the situation and end the fight. However, he also became the object of aggression. About five people realized that the policeman was armed and tried to get a revolver.

During the fight, one of the participants threw a rock at the police officers who were still inside the establishment. The second stone was thrown through the nightclub window.

attacks and shooting

To stop the attacks, the military police officer fired twice. The participants in the fight ran to the other side of the street, and one of them shouted: “This is a policeman”, inciting, according to the prime minister, the rest of the participants in the attack on the military and the guard.

Surveillance cameras in the institution recorded an attack on Burzanello by one of the men. The images were not released to the press until Saturday afternoon (3).

The pictures, according to the prime minister, show how the soldier is attacked by three other men, while one of them is trying to pick up a gun. A woman, a partner of one of the rioters, helped pick up the revolver from which the soldier was shot.

The bullet fired at the policeman hit the thigh of his left leg. He was rescued and sent to Tangara Hospital, but due to the severity of his injury, he was transferred to HUST (University Hospital) in Joasaba.

According to the information provided by the medical team to the Prime Minister, the serviceman was injured in the femoral artery. He was taken to intensive care in a serious condition, but he could not stand it and died.

arrest of suspects

According to the Prime Minister, four suspects, three men and one woman, have been identified and detained. In the house of one of them, the police found clothes still stained with blood.

All were taken to the civilian police department. The case is under investigation. Report no data+ tried to contact the delegate who is following the case and the nightclub, but received no response prior to this posting.