The man who, on Tuesday night, in Faro, killed his mother-in-law with a shotgun and wounded the wife he was getting divorced from, was placed in preventive detention yesterday, after being heard by the court.
The 30-year-old man had surrendered to the PSP in Castelo Branco, his home district, on Wednesday, about 16 hours after the crime, after having escaped the barriers erected by the PSP and GNR on the roads throughout the Algarve.
In court, he admitted that he was responsible for the shots that killed his 62-year-old mother-in-law and wounded the woman.
She ended up being injured without seriousness, because she managed to escape and take refuge in a room, with her twin daughters and a brother.
The man, who had a license to use and carry a gun for a short time, had attended an admissions course for the PSP in 2007 but failed, having never joined the police force.
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