The crime took place in Praça São Benedito and was recorded by security cameras.
Jade is hospitalized at Santa Casa de Barretos. The health condition is considered serious, but stable.
One of the attackers was arrested. The second person involved has not yet been located.
The delegate responsible for the case, Guilherme Carvalho de Oliveira, investigates the dynamics and motivation of the crime.
The violence provoked outrage among the victim's family and the Barretos community. The bishop, Dom Milton Kenan Júnior, released a statement of repudiation and called for punishment for those responsible.
"We are very devastated to see the situation she is in. She is unrecognizable. We want justice", said domestic worker Janaina Cristina dos Santos, her sister.
See what is known about the case:
Who is the victim?
Jade is 43 years old and is the second daughter of four brothers. The sister said that she is known for her friendliness and solidarity with homeless people, as she usually helps those in need of shelter.
According to Janaina, Jade is currently living in a house provided by a family acquaintance. There, she began to welcome homeless people.
"She is a person who doesn't hurt anyone, wherever she goes she is always polite to people, she always tries to help other homeless people. She always says that she knows how bad it is to sleep on the street, be cold or sleep in the rain."
According to Janaina, her sister faces problems related to alcohol and drug consumption, but highlighted that she was lucid when she passed by the family home, hours before the crime.
"She had come to my house during the day, I live on the block above where she lives. She had come here, it was around 3 pm, she talked to me. Then at night, it was 12:30 am, she came by, called me, she wasn't drunk, she wasn't on drugs. She was lucid and went up to the little square, which was having a fair, and that's when everything happened."
What happened?
Jade was attacked by two men at around 4am on Monday (12), on Rua Trinta, near Praça São Benedito, in Barretos.
Security camera footage recorded the violence. The video shows the victim injured and lying on the ground, without any chance of reacting. She received several kicks and punches to the head and was even stamped on the chest. One of the attackers even tried to strangle her.
An app driver witnessed the attack and said that, initially, Jade still tried to protect herself with her arms made of bricks thrown towards her.
"Horrible. I started shaking at the time, I started to despair, because I've never seen this in my life. I've never seen this in my life.”
How were the police called?
The app driver, who prefers not to be identified, was transporting passengers along Rua Thirty when he witnessed the beginning of the attacks and called the Military Police.
According to him, the suspects stopped vehicles from passing through the street and challenged anyone trying to get closer.
The driver drove around the block to get passengers to their destination. When he returned, he found Jade lying and bloody.
As help had not yet arrived, he decided to look for the police in person. “I ran to the police station and asked them for help. And that’s when they acted quickly.”
The driver said that he was desperate due to the violence and that he would have liked to have done more for the victim, but he was unable to get out of the car because of threats from one of the attackers.
Jade was taken to Santa Casa. The sister says that the family found the victim disfigured.
"She is unrecognizable. My brother ran to Santa Casa and by the time he arrived, he already caught Jade coming out of the operating room. So you can imagine what a shock it was to see the state she was in."
Who was arrested?
Farmer Adilson Pereira, 35 years old, was arrested by the Military Police while still at the scene, next to Jade, who was lying on the ground.
According to the police report, Adilson confessed to participating in the attacks during his statement to the Civil Police. He claimed that the attack was motivated by a disagreement related to charging for a cell phone.
In the images, it is possible to hear Adilson charging Jade's phone, seriously injured on the floor.
The version presented by the suspect is contested by the victim's family.
According to the app driver, Adilson stated at the police station that he only did not kill the victim because the police arrived.
Adilson underwent a custody hearing on Monday and had his arrest in flagrante delicto converted into preventative arrest by the courts.
The São Paulo Public Defender's Office reported that it participated in the hearing to verify the legality of the arrest. Statements about the case will be made exclusively in the case files, said the agency.
Where is the second suspect?
The second man identified as a participant in the attack has not yet been located by the police.
Until the last update, there was no news about his whereabouts, according to the Civil Police.
Jade's sister questions why the man wasn't arrested on the day of the crime. According to Janaína, the images the family had access to show that he was still at the scene when the police arrived.
How is the family?
Jade's family has been experiencing moments of anguish since the attack. The mother, pensioner Marisa dos Santos Oliveira, reports the suffering of accompanying her daughter hospitalized in a serious condition. "My heart is shattered."
Janaína says everyone is shaken. According to her, Jade is a very beloved person and the case caused outrage in the city.
"We are very devastated to see the situation she is in. She is unrecognizable. We want justice", he says.
The case provoked a public demonstration by the Catholic Church. On Thursday (15), the bishop of Barretos, Dom Milton Kenan Júnior, released a note in which he repudiated the violence and offered solidarity to the family.
"I believe that, moved by our Christian faith, we cannot fail to publicly express our indignation at acts like this, which harm human dignity."
The religious man also defended the punishment of those responsible and expressed his desire for Jade to recover and return to family and society.
