Military police arrested this Wednesday (10) a man suspected of carrying the body of a woman in a supermarket cart last week in the eastern area of São Paulo.
Erick Pereira dos Santos, known as Cicatriz, was the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the courts on suspicion of participation in the crime. The victim was identified as Angélica Alves Camargo.
He was found on Borges Figueiredo Street, in Mooca, east of São Paulo and taken to the DHPP (Department of Homicide and Personal Protection), in charge of the investigation.
The main hypothesis is femicide. The police are still investigating whether he is responsible for Angélica’s death or whether he simply participated in transporting the corpse. The report did not locate Santos’ defense.
Surveillance cameras filmed the man pushing the cart along Rua General Oscar Carvalho, in Vila Formosa.
Angélica’s body was found by chance by a man who was investigating the theft of two bicycles. He arrived at Santos, who was apparently homeless, and began watching him. Early in the morning, the man began following the suspect in his car. Upon noticing the movement, Santos ran away and abandoned the cart he was pushing.
As the man approached, he saw the woman’s body and called the military police.
The owner of one establishment said Santos was at his bar, had two beers and did not pay. He ran out and left behind a fanny pack containing a pipe, a lighter and a bag.
The suspect was recognized by a photo from the police system and by images obtained through Muralha Paulista, the state government’s camera system.
Expert reports were requested to determine the cause of Angélica’s death.
“The coldness manifested by his behavior – during the transport of the body of a lifeless woman on the public highway, using a cart – shows a high degree of dangerousness and disregard for minimal mechanisms of social control”, states an extract from the arrest request made by the DHPP (Department of Homicide and Personal Protection).
Record number of feminicides
In 2025, the number of feminicides in the capital São Paulo reached 53 cases, the highest in the historical series – the record even occurs two months before the end of the year. In 2024, there were 51 cases of femicide from January to December, the highest number ever recorded so far.
According to a survey by the Sou da Paz Institute, the capital of São Paulo was the scene of one in four feminicides committed in the state. Comparing the first ten months of 2025 with the same period last year, the increase is 23% in the city. Compared to 2023, the growth was 71%.
The data reinforces the most common characteristics of this type of crime: the majority of cases occur indoors (67%) and victims are murdered with bladed weapons or blunt objects – instruments used in more than half of the crimes committed in the state.
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