Brazil man dies after shocking video shows ‘wife setting him on fire in the middle of a store before watching him run out in flames’
- Andre Chapeta died Friday morning in a Rio de Janeiro hospital from burns he suffered after he was allegedly set on fire by his wife, Ana Maria Paixao.
- On Monday, the 50-year-old victim was sitting at a table in the Paixaí fish market when he was doused with flammable liquid and flicked a lighter.
- Paixai was taken to the police station on Thursday morning but was released later that day because the judge did not approve the arrest warrant.
This is the terrifying moment a man’s wife allegedly flew into a jealous rage and set him on fire at the fish market she owned in Brazil.
Andre Chapeta, 50, died Friday less than a week after suffering devastating burns.
The incident occurred on Monday at a store in Rio de Janeiro when Ana Maria Paixao noticed Chapeta sitting at a table.
Surveillance camera showed Paishai walking past the counter and opening a bottle before dousing his body with the flammable liquid.
The woman allegedly then flicked a lighter and set him on fire.
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Andre Chapeta (left) died Friday morning, four days after his wife Ana Maria Paixao (right) doused him with a flammable liquid and set him on fire. Paishai was detained by police on Thursday morning, but released in the evening because the court did not sign an arrest warrant.
Ana Maria Paixao attacked her husband Andre Chapeta as he was engulfed in flames seconds after she set him on fire at her fish market in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. Chapeta died on Friday from his injuries.
Chapeta rushed to the fish market storage area, engulfed in flames.
He was rushed to Getulio Vargas Hospital where he was treated for burns to 92 percent of his body before succumbing to his injuries on Friday.
Paixai was detained by police on Thursday morning but released overnight after a judge failed to sign an arrest warrant.
Civil police chief Flavio Ferreira told Brazilian news outlet G1 that he believed the incident was caused by the woman’s jealousy of her husband.
He told the channel P7 that the couple’s 30-year relationship was allegedly marked by bouts of domestic violence.
Andre Chapeta suffered burns to 92 percent of his body after his wife set him on fire Monday at the fish market she owns in Rio de Janeiro.
Ana Maria Paixao emerges from a fish market storage area with a bottle containing the flammable liquid she used to set her husband on fire. She told police investigators that she defended herself after he beat her, but they dismissed the claim.
Ana Maria Paixao stands next to her husband Andre Chapeta before she doused him with flammable liquid and set him on fire Monday night at the fish market she owns in Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro’s civil police said the couple’s 30-year relationship was riddled with incidents of domestic violence.
Paixao told investigators she was beaten before Chapeta was set on fire and that she reacted in self-defense, a claim they rejected.
“What she says doesn’t match the picture. In the photo the victim is sitting in a chair. She comes, cold, pours liquid on him and sets him on fire,” Ferreira said.
“She was not in a vulnerable situation at that moment, she was not in a situation in which she would inevitably be attacked.
“On the contrary, as I said, he was sitting and did not pose any risk to her physical integrity at that moment.”