A young man died after being shot by military police officers during an intervention on the evening of 2 November 2026 in Jardim Olaria, Caraguatatuba, on São Paulo’s north coast.[1][2] The incident was recorded at about 18:25 on Viela do Ipiranga after a report of threats and a gunshot during a family dispute over the handover of a child.[1] Police said the man involved in the dispute went quickly into the house and pulled a handmade .380-calibre gun from a backpack.[1] According to the police account, he did not obey orders to drop the weapon, so one officer fired three 5.56 rifle shots while another fired two .40 pistol shots.[1] He was hit, fell and was pronounced dead at the scene by SAMU and firefighter crews.[1]
During searches in the house, police seized about 919 grams of a substance resembling cannabis, in one brick and 36 wrapped portions.[1][2] They also collected a notebook with notes indicating possible drug-trafficking accounts, a mobile phone and the handmade gun with a magazine.[1] Officers also found a fired cartridge case in the yard and sent it for forensic analysis.[1][2]
A woman who lived in the house admitted damaging a white Chevrolet Trailblazer patrol vehicle.[1] She was recorded for aggravated damage to public property, had her flagrante arrest recognized, paid bail set at one minimum wage and was released on condition she appear in the proceedings.[1] The dead man’s partner remained under investigation but was not indicted for drug-trafficking association at this stage for lack of individualized evidence of a stable associative link.[1][2] Civil Police registered the case as death resulting from police intervention, along with aggravated damage, drug-trafficking association and resistance.[1] The authority ordered necroscopic, ballistic, on-site forensic and body-camera examinations of the weapon, the seized substances and the officers’ cameras.[1] The case remains under Civil Police investigation.[1]
The young man who died was identified as 21-year-old Luan Vitor S. S.[2]
