Brazil’s biggest serial killer shot dead

SAO PAULO: A self-described vigilante murderer who rose to fame in Brazil for claiming to have killed more than 100 victims, mainly drug dealers, rapists and other criminals, was shot dead near Sao Paulo, authorities said on Monday.

Pedro Rodrigues Filho, dubbed “Brazil´s biggest serial killer,” died Sunday of multiple gunshot wounds in the southeastern city of Mogi das Cruzes, said the Sao Paulo state public security department. “The suspects fled after the crime,” it said in a statement. Rodrigues, 68, spent 42 years in prison for homicide.