- Ielly Alves was shot dead by her boyfriend Diego Fonseca on Saturday evening in a house in Jataí, a city in northeastern Brazil
- Alves was filming Fonseca pointing his gun at them when he fired a shot at the end of the recording
- Fonseca drove her to a hospital and told police that a man on a motorcycle had shot at her
A young Brazilian woman filmed the moment she was shot by her boyfriend, who allegedly told police she was shot by a man on a motorcycle.
The dramatic footage shows Diego Fonseca, 27, standing near a window and pointing the gun at Ielly Alves, 23, in an apartment building in downtown Jataí on Saturday.
In the video, Alves was heard laughing and telling Fonseca: “Come on, darling, do it.” “Wow, so delicious.”
He pulled the trigger and let it crash to the ground before the recording ended. Fonseca rushed her to the Hospital des Clinicas, where she died before doctors attended to her.
Officers were called to the medical facility and interviewed Fonseca, who claimed that two people rode up to them on a motorcycle and that one of them fired two shots, hitting Alves, local news outlets reported.
Ielly Alves filmed the moment her boyfriend Diego Fonseca shot her dead in a house in Jataí, Brazil, on Saturday evening. Fonseca tried to cover up the crime by telling police that two men had stopped at his car while he was driving before one of them shot her. Police found inconsistencies with his version of the incident, checked Alves’ phone, which contained the video footage, and arrested him. Diego Fonseca pointed his gun at his girlfriend Ielly Alves, who recorded him on her cellphone before he pulled the trigger, and shot her dead in Jataí, Brazil, on Saturday. He rushed Alves to a local hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead before they could attempt to save her life. Ielly Alves had been threatened in the past by her boyfriend who told her he would kill her
Investigating officers noticed he was contradicting himself and took him to the police station, where they checked Alves’ cell phone and discovered video of the shooting.
Fonseca was arrested for murder. His weapon, a .380-caliber pistol, was recovered near where he had parked his car in front of the hospital.
Alves’ mother told Brazilian news channel G1 that Fonseca approached her and promised to find the killers.
“It was through him that I found out she was in the hospital,” Olesiane Alves said. “At the medical center, he hugged me and said, ‘Mother-in-law, whoever did this to her will pay.’
She said they had been together for a year and seven months and that her daughter wanted out of the relationship.
Olesiane Alves recalled her daughter telling her hours before her murder that she was breaking up with Fonseca because things weren’t “working out” with them.
She said her daughter prepared a meal for her boyfriend and told her, “Mom, I’m going over there and I’ll be back soon.”
Olesiane Alves recalled that her daughter sought treatment in a hospital last year after Fonseca attacked her – her arm was stitched.
Ielly Alves dated her boyfriend Diego Fonseca for a year and seven months, but according to her mother, the relationship was violent at times. Alves once required stitches on one arm after Fonseca beat her in 2022. Brazilian police noticed discrepancies with Diego Fonseca’s (center) version of how Ielly Alves was shot and decided to check her cell phone, where they found the video that showed the moment he shot her Olesiane Alves (right) said, that her daughter Ielly Alves (left) was going to meet her boyfriend Diego Fonseca to end the relationship because it didn’t “work out”.
In another incident, also in 2022, Fonseca beat her daughter after catching her talking to an ex-boyfriend.
“There were a few times when they argued and she came away with some bruises.” “I thought it would be bad to get involved, but it was difficult,” she said. She didn’t say much to me because she knew I felt her pain.’
A friend also told G1 that Alves broke off her abusive relationship with Fonseca and advised her to go to the police after Fonseca threatened to kill her.
She shared a text message from a month ago in which she told Alves, “If he threatens you and hurts you again, you will get a protection order.”
“This is how most femicides happen.” “No one believes a person is capable until they see they are dead.”
She said Fonseca tried to join a party uninvited and confront Alves, but was stopped.
On another occasion, he broke into Alves’ mother’s house while she was showering.