Rafaela was one of two people (the other being a cisgender man) whose bodies were found with gunshot wounds in a vacant lot in the Monte Verde neighborhood.
Her home had also been ransacked and robbed.
A trans woman known as Rafaela is one of the victims found yesterday (29) in a vacant lot in the Monte Verde neighborhood, East of Teresina. The body was identified by her family yesterday (29), around 11 pm, at the Forensic Medical Institute. The bodies of Rafaela and a man, who remains unidentified, were found decomposing late yesterday afternoon by locals in a vacant lot used to dispose of garbage in the region.
According to the family, Rafaela worked as a daily cleaner and lived in an apartment provided by the family. Teams from the Homicide and Personal Protection Department (DHPP) went to the apartment where she lived and found her belongings ransacked. The victim's family reported that household appliances and electronic devices were missing.
Rafaela and the other victim were executed with shots to the head, and the man's hands were tied behind his back. According to police chief Francisco Costa Barreta, the bodies were close together. The press has received information that the two victims had their eyes gouged out, but the police are waiting for the autopsy report from the Forensic Medical Institute, which will determine this information.
"The two bodies were found in a place that was used as a garbage dump by the population. Animals, such as vultures, were seen there, and this type of injury could have been caused by the action of animals. So we need to wait for the IML to determine if this happened," he determined.