Brazil party official shot dead as pre-election...
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Brazil party official shot dead as pre-election...

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This is the moment a supporter of President Jair Bolsonaro shot dead a local opposition official at his 50th birthday party on Saturday. Marcelo Arruda, a municipal guard and Workers' Party official, was celebrating his birthday with friends and family in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, when Jorge Guaranho entered the locale and allegedly shot him. Arruda, an official for the opposition Workers' Party, was killed by Jorge Guaranho, an ardent supporter of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro Jorge Guaranho poses with federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of the President Jair Bolsonaro. Guaranho was wounded Saturday after he shot dead Marcelo Arruda, an official with the opposition Workers' Party Surveillance camera still image of Jorge Guaranho as he pulls out a gun while a woman tries to stop him before he fired two shots inside the venue where he murdered Marcelo Arruda A woman rushes towards Jorge Guaranho while he aims his gun at Marcel Arruda A second video showed Guaranho, who according to Alliana did not know Arruda and was not invited to the party, driving up to the building and being confronted by a woman who pleaded him to stop before he pulled out his gun. Marcelo Arruda themed his 50th birthday bash around former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula, who is challenging right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro in October's general elections The death of Arruda, whose birthday party was themed after former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula, augurs badly ahead of an October general election amid intense political polarization in Brazil.

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