Leonardo Pinheiro, a journalist who worked with social media to highlight local issues and demand solutions from authorities, was killed by a group of unidentified assailants on May 13 in the seaside city of municipality of Araruama in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Pinheiro was recording video interviews when the assailants arrived in a car and asked to kneel on the ground before shooting him in execution style killing.
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