One of Brazil’s greatest Jiu-Jitsu champions of all time, Leandro Lo, has been declared brain dead after receiving a shot in the head in a São Paulo club.
Lo was one of the most successful Jiu-Jitsu athletes of all time, having won the World Championships eight times. According to witnesses Lo and his friends were approached by a man in a threatening way, Lo immobilised the man, but after he let him go, the man shot Lo. The suspect, who fled the scene later on handed himself in to police. An investigation for attempted murder has been opened.
A friend of Lo who was with him at the time, said a lone man approached their table, took a bottle from it and waved it around in a menacing way. Lo had pinned the man to the ground to “calm him down”. But after he let him go, the man shot Lo in the head, the unnamed friend told Brazilian news site G1. A lawyer for the Lo family, Ivan Siqueira Junior, said Lo and his friends had tried to prevent the incident from escalating.