Police investigate murder of caretaker and attempted murder of companion at stud farms in Campinas

The Military Police (PM) released this Friday (2) images from a portable operational camera that shows the rescue of Beatriz Correia de Lacerda dos Santos, 36 years old, who on Thursday (1st) was shot in a stud farm on the border between Campinas (SP) and Jaguariúna (SP).

The victim was found lying on the ground, injured by a gunshot to the abdomen, while holding an eight-month-old child in his arms, who was being breastfed.

In the video, it is possible to see that the police find Beatriz sitting on the floor in a hallway, with her son on her lap. The agents catch the child and then try to stop the woman's bleeding until rescuers arrive.

The victim was rescued by the Águia helicopter to the Hospital de Clínicas (HC) of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). As of Friday afternoon, her health condition was stable.

Even though she was shot, Beatriz managed to send messages to family members, who called the police. In the same location, her partner, Hérculis Santiago, 50, was also shot and found dead on the bathroom floor.

According to findings from EPTV, a TV Globo affiliate, the couple lives in one of the houses at the stud farm, located in the Bosque das Palmeiras neighborhood, in Campinas (SP). At the scene, the PM reported that the victims were in the residence when men broke in and fired shots.

The Civil Police are treating the case as a completed murder and attempted murder. The circumstances and authorship of the crime are investigated by the Department of Homicide and Personal Protection (DHPP) of Campinas.

The Civil Police suspect that a neighbor was one of those responsible for the shooting. Abdias Nogueira Ramos, 73 years old, is treated as the "number one investigated" in the case, as he already had disagreements with the victims and was not located after the crime.

Delegate Rui Pegolo, from the Campinas Homicide Police Station, confirmed that Abdias is the main person being investigated. "His neighbor has not been located to date, which is why he is now number one under investigation. (...) The police have already contacted the victims' lawyer. There are some threatening actions, some actions related to the property, which probably generated this disagreement between this suspect and the victims", explained Pegolo.

In a statement, the PM also confirmed that Abdias is the main suspect. According to the corporation, after the shots, he fled the scene using a gray Versailles or Santana Quantum vehicle, heading towards Jaguariúna.

Hérculis even filed a lawsuit against Abdias over the dispute over ownership of the property where the victim lived and worked as a caretaker. The lawsuit, which is being processed in the 5th Civil Court of Campinas, asks for the recognition of rural partnership and compensation.

According to g1, Hérculis signed a verbal lease agreement with Abdias in 2021 and made improvements to the property. The author alleged that, after the abrupt rupture of the agreement, he began to suffer threats, impediments to carrying out rural activities and interruptions to essential services. These threats were even recorded in three police reports.

The document also reports moral damage resulting from clashes between the parties. In one of the episodes described, Beatriz Correia de Lacerda dos Santos, Hérculis' companion who was also shot, reportedly suffered an emotional shock during pregnancy and required hospitalization.

Hérculis was described by his brother-in-law as a discreet man, dedicated to his work and taking care of his family. According to Victor Gabriel Lacerda, 22 years old, Beatriz's younger brother, the couple had met at the Assembly of God church, in Cosmópolis (SP). Hérculis and Beatriz had lived in a stable union since 2025 and, in January of this year, she gave birth to the couple's son.

Victor Gabriel says that Hérculis spent his days growing food, caring for animals and repairing the property where he lived. It was there that he helped renovate rooms and structures to house the family. "Everything that Hérculis planted, he managed to harvest, sell and everything made money. He was a hard worker. He liked to take care of his family and only lived working", he says.