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Ramona Torres da Silva

Age 35

10 Jun 2023
Manuas, Amazonas (Brazil)
Stabbed and shot

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Ramona Torres da Silva
Ramona Torres da Silva [photo: imediatoonline.com]

Ramona's body was found with stab and gunshot wounds just over a week after she had gone missing.

Manaus | Family members accompany search teams in search of the body of 35-year-old [trans woman] [deadname] Torres da Silva, known as Ramona. Teams from the Military Fire Department and the Civil Police are carrying out searches near the port of São Raimundo in the west zone of Manaus.

According to information from the family passed on to the police, Ramona had been missing since June 10, until family members received a video showing the victim's body with stab wounds in the neck and face, in addition to perforations that would be from firearm shots, indicating that she may have been stabbed and shot to death.

Images indicate that she may have been stabbed to death and shot. Still according to family members, Ramona was a drug user and would have suffered an ambush. The crime may be motivated by a possible reckoning.

https://imediatoonline.com/policia/familiares-acompanham-buscas-por-corpo-de-travesti-na-zona-oeste/

https://d24am.com/policia/video-familiares-acompanham-buscas-pelo-corpo-de-travesti-em-manaus/

Report added: 24 Jun 2023. Last updated: 13 Nov 2023

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