Belo Horizonte Businessman Ordered to Stand Trial in Street Sweeper’s Killing

Overview

• Judge Ana Carolina Rauen Lopes de Souza issued a pronouncement sending Renê da Silva Nogueira Júnior to a jury for triple‑qualified homicide, plus threat, procedural fraud, and illegal gun possession.
• The court kept him in preventive detention and denied a request to seal the case, and the trial date has not yet been set.
• The ruling cites ballistics, seizure records, images, and witness statements as evidence of the crime’s materiality and indications of authorship.
• Investigators linked the pistol used to his wife, police delegate Ana Paula Lamego, who was indicted by internal affairs for prevarication and faces an inquiry over illegal‑weapon issues.
• Prosecutors describe a fatal shooting following a traffic dispute in Vista Alegre, while the defense contests procedure and coercion claims and may appeal the decision.