Former bank guard Pedro Bernardo Da Silva Junior was sentenced to serve a sentence of one year and three months in a semi-open regime for killing Marcos Frederico Eugênio. The crime occurred on the night of June 14 this year, in a property in the Jardim Boa Vista neighborhood, in Auriflama (SP). g1 tries to contact the convict’s defense.
Pedro was arrested on June 19 and was awaiting trial in prison. In his sentence, judge Pedro Henrique Batista dos Santos rejected the Public Prosecutor's Office's (MP) request for the defendant to go to a popular jury for qualified homicide committed with possible intent and with an appeal that made the victim's defense difficult.
In the sentence, the magistrate classified the crime as manslaughter, when there is no intention to kill, understanding that there were no disagreements between the defendant and the victim. Understand below.
Pedro and Marcos had been friends for over 20 years. On the night of June 13th to 14th, 2026, they met at Pedro's house with a third friend to have a barbecue and watch the World Cup game.
In addition to being a former bank guard, Pedro is a registered sports shooter, having vast technical knowledge about safety rules and weapons handling. At around 00:20, when he was preparing to take his friends away, Pedro decided to grab his 9mm pistol.
Then he walked to the balcony hiding the gun behind his back and joked, saying: "Are you weirding me out?" Faced with Marcos's joking response, Pedro pointed the gun at his friend, lowered his arm and the shot occurred. The bullet hit the victim's right eye, who suffered head trauma and did not survive.
As highlighted by the judge, the defendant believed that the weapon was completely unloaded when he removed the magazine and pulled the bolt. However, the magistrate classified the conduct as a serious error, as the convict did not visually check the explosion chamber, where there was a bullet.
As stated in the sentence, upon seeing Marcos on the ground, Pedro showed despair. He grabbed the other friend who was at the meeting by the shoulders and said: "I can't believe I did this, tell me I'm dreaming!"
As the pair were unable to lift the body, the witness called the police and the rescue team. Pedro fled the scene in a vehicle before help arrived, but was arrested in Birigui (SP) on June 19.
In the decision, the magistrate concluded that, despite his guilt for not checking the weapon, Pedro never seemed indifferent to his friend's death. Based on the long history of friendship, the absence of fights and the defendant's instantaneous reaction immediately after the shooting, the judge classified the incident as manslaughter and ordered the immediate issuance of the release permit, so that the sentence can be served in a semi-open regime, through precautionary measures, such as nighttime home confinement (from 11pm to 5am) and the prohibition on leaving the city for more than eight days without authorization.
