Brazilian police investigating the on-stage shooting of a rapper say he may have been the victim of a vigilante death squad with links to the police that could also be responsible for the murders of six other MCs.
This is the seventh death of an MC since 2010. It could have been eight but rapper Julio Cesar Ferreira, 26, also known as MC Neguinho Caxeta, miraculously survived when gunmen sprayed his car with bullets in June 2012. Four lodged in his back, narrowly missing his vital organs.
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