Gislayne Silva de Deus, a 35-year-old police officer from Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil, has avenged her father’s brutal murder after 25 years.
Deus was just 9 years old when her father was killed. After decades of working as a police officer, she tracked down and arrested her father’s killer, bringing closure to her family’s painful journey.
According to reports, her father, Giraldo José Vicente de Deus, was shot and killed in February 1999 over a 20-pound debt.
The tragic incident reportedly occurred at a local bar, where her father, a supermarket owner, was playing pool with a friend. At the bar, Raimundo Alves Gomes, one of Deus’s suppliers and a convicted murderer, demanded payment for the debt.
Local media reports reveal that despite Deus’s offer to settle with a freezer, Gomes refused, leading to an altercation between the two. Gomes left the bar only to return with a gun and shot Deus in the head.
Gomes was initially caught and sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2013, but he avoided imprisonment by appealing the verdict. After his final appeal was rejected in 2016, he fled the country and went into hiding.
Gislayne Silva de Deus was determined to find her father’s killer and began studying law at 18, later joining the police force. Holding various positions, she remained focused on bringing her father’s murderer to justice. Assigned to the General Homicide Division, she tirelessly tracked down Alves Gomes and found him hiding on a farm in the Nova Cidade region near Boa Vista. He was finally arrested on September 25, 2024.
Deus admitted to manifesting the day her father’s killer would be behind bars. “When I was a prison [police officer], I always imagined [the killer] arriving there to serve his sentence,” she told local media.
She finally confronted Alves Gomes 25 years after the murder. Expressing her relief and emotional release upon seeing him in handcuffs, she said, “It’s because of me that you are here. You are now going to pay.”
“When I saw the man who was responsible for my dad’s death finally in handcuffs, I couldn’t hold back the tears. It was an explosion of feelings that turned into tears of relief, as it seemed like this day would never come. My dad was an honest and hard-working man. He encouraged us to study and spent time helping us with homework and times tables. He was always very close to us and caring. My sisters and I went through really difficult times after we lost him. What happened could easily have sent us in a different direction, but our mother always taught us to follow the right path,” she said.
She shared how her father’s death deeply affected her family, but they remained on the right path. On September 26, 2024, Gomes’ conviction was upheld, and he was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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