Commander of Camacari force was discussing fight against traffickers when he was assassinated on way to work
For police chief Clayton Leão Chaves it was supposed another day at office. At around 9.40am this morning, he was making his daily journey police HQ in Camacari, small city in Bahia state, and giving an interview local radio on his mobile phone police’s struggle against local drug traffickers.
Then something went badly wrong.
“I heard some bangs,” one the shows two presenters announced, perplexed, as the police chief’s voice disappeared.
“Something serious has happened our chief. It can’t anything else,” said his co-presenter, adding: “The chief was just talking us. We don’t know what has happened. There a lady weeping.”
According local media reports, Chaves had been killed as he spoke journalists from Bahia’s Lider FM radio station thousands local listeners about attempts improve security.
In recording programme, released today, voice police chief’s wife can be heard breaking into hysterical cry. “Oh my God heaven, Oh my God heaven. For love God.”
According reports, the police chief’s car was ambushed by gunmen, who then fled white VW car.
“He was talking,” his wife can be heard screaming on the recording. “He was giving an interview on the radio.”
Producers at Lider FM allowed audio from police chief’s mobile phone roll for several minutes following ambush, until bystander appears comfort woman and line finally goes dead.
“Stay calm,” a man’s voice can heard saying.
Stunned, show’s presenters urged police rush scene. “Attention military police, attention colleagues of police chief. Get Cascalheira Highway urgently. Something serious has just happened.”
Local radio presenter Marco Antonio Ribeiro told the G1 news site: “I was finishing the interview when the crime happened. We were meant do the interview in the studio he couldn’t make it. The interview was his work combating drug trafficking in the region.”
Camacari is home around 230,000 Brazilians and like many parts country has been suffering increasing violence and drug use, particularly crack cocaine.
Since 2007, nearby Salvador, which boasts one world’s most famous carnivals, homicide rates have been well above those Sao Paulo and even Rio de Janeiro.
In a statement radio station said: “Lider FM talks every day about what is happening in city. Unfortunately we have now reached point where city’s police chief himself has been assassinated.”
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