| Place and date | What happened | What authorities say |
|---|
| Montes Claros (MG), Oct. 24 | PT councilor hit in the face by an object at a pro-Lula motorcade | Federal Police inquiry; no suspect named |
| Santos (SP), Oct. 24 | Engineer beaten after a pro-Lula show; later died | Investigated as robbery-murder; two teens held |
| Bonito (MS), Oct. 24 | Man shot in a fight near a pro-Flávio motorcade | Election court says personal dispute |
| Ilhabela (SP), Oct. 24 | Two children hit by a car during a pro-Flávio motorcade | Driver arrested; motive not established |
| Mangueirinha (PR), Oct. 25 | Man hit by a car at a Lula victory party; died Oct. 26 | Investigated as homicide; driver failed breath test |
| Campo Novo do Parecis (MT), Oct. 25 | Civil Police officer shot dead | Suspect held; motive under investigation |
| Porto Esperidião (MT) | Man shot in a fight during a pro-Bolsonaro event | Police found no link to the election |
| Tacuru (MS), after Oct. 25 | Audio urging that Indigenous water be poisoned | City workers suspended; federal inquiry |
","layout":"text"},{"role":"body","format":"markdown","text":"### Attacks on Lula supporters at rallies and celebrations\n\nOne of the first cases reported came on the eve of the vote. In Montes Claros, in northern Minas Gerais, councilor Iara Pimentel of Lula's Workers' Party (PT) was struck in the face by an object thrown at the sound truck she was riding, [Agência Brasil reported](https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/politica/noticia/2026-10/governo-federal-atuara-em-45-casos-de-violencia-politica-no-2o-turno). She lost consciousness and was taken away by ambulance. By her account, the truck was pelted with bottles and bricks. A child was also hurt, [Revista Fórum reported](https://revistaforum.com.br/politica/violencia-politica-segundo-turno/). The Federal Police opened an inquiry and took her statement. No suspect had been publicly identified by November 2.\n\nOther reports concern the police themselves. In Florianópolis, a highway police car struck a motorcyclist during Sunday night's celebrations, [Brasil de Fato reported](https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/10/27/deputado-marquito-cobra-investigacao-sobre-pm-que-atropelou-jovem-em-comemoracao-da-vitoria-de-lula/). A photo caption in the report said the highway police were investigating the officers involved. The motorcyclist was also placed under arrest for allegedly riding dangerously. In Apucarana, in Paraná, videos showed police and municipal guards using pepper spray on people celebrating, and a public servant filming the scene was hit in the leg by rubber bullets, [Brasil de Fato reported](https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/10/28/homicidio-ataque-a-gremio-estudantil-e-ameacas-a-apoiadores-marcam-a-semana-apos-vitoria-de-lula-no-parana/). No police account of either episode had been published in the reports reviewed.\n\nIn General Carneiro, in Mato Grosso, a city councilor from the MDB party fired shots during a celebration of Lula's win, and a woman was injured, [HiperNotícias reported](https://hnt.com.br/policia/uma-semana-apos-segundo-turno-mt-tem-saldo-de-morte-tiroteio-e-atropelamento/584104). The councilor, Marcos Aurélio Bento Pena, surrendered after about 50 minutes of talks with police. He was released on bail of R$1,000. He said he had fired an air pistol into the air.\n\n### Deaths with motives still unsettled\n\nIn Santos, on the São Paulo coast, environmental engineer Marcelo de Oliveira Rocha, 30, was beaten early on October 24 after leaving a show by a band supporting Lula. He was declared brain-dead the next day, and reports give his date of death as October 25 or 26. Civil Police are investigating the case as latrocínio, a robbery that ends in death, because his phone and other belongings were taken, [O Liberal reported from Estadão Conteúdo](https://www.oliberal.com/brasil/suspeitos-s-o-apreendidos-por-morte-de-engenheiro-em-ato-pro-lula-1.1187660). Police identified seven suspects, five of them minors. Two teenagers were taken into custody on October 27, and the attack was streamed live by those involved. The same report said there was also a suspicion of homophobia. The reports reviewed did not include a police finding on political motive.\n\nIn Mangueirinha, in Paraná, Eliseu Pedrozo dos Santos, 38, was hit by a car during a victory celebration on Sunday night and died the next day. Agência Brasil, citing the Gazeta do Paraná newspaper, reported that a drunk driver ran through a police roadblock and struck four men. The driver was arrested and failed a breath test. Military Police are treating the death as a homicide, Brasil de Fato reported.\n\nIn Campo Novo do Parecis, in Mato Grosso, Civil Police officer Emilson Ormond Souza, 56, was shot dead in front of a supermarket on Sunday night. A suspect was detained the next day. Reports said the suspect had questioned the presence of people linked to a party before the shooting, but police had not confirmed that. In a first statement, the suspect said he had been aiming at a sound system, HiperNotícias reported.\n\n### Cases where officials pointed to other motives\n\nSome deaths that spread online as political killings have drawn different findings from authorities.\n\nIn Bonito, in Mato Grosso do Sul, Ewerton Rodrigues da Silva was shot dead on October 24 in a brawl near a motorcade for Flávio Bolsonaro. Another man was wounded. The suspected shooter is a teenager who, according to reports, took a gun to defend his father in the fight. The regional election court said the claim of a political crime \"does not hold,\" after checking with the local election judge, and described the fight as personal, [A Crítica reported](https://acritica.net/eleicoes-2026/morte-bonito-tre-ms-motivo-pessoal-sem-relacao-politica/). Civil Police had not announced their own conclusion.\n\nIn Porto Esperidião, in Mato Grosso, Anderson Bolandin was shot dead in a fight at a gas station during a pro-Bolsonaro event. Civil Police said they found no link to the election, HiperNotícias reported.\n\nIn Naviraí, in Mato Grosso do Sul, posts claimed that Indigenous people had been killed for political reasons. Federal prosecutors investigated and said their inquiry \"disproved the rumors,\" [according to the federal prosecution service](https://www.mpf.mp.br/o-mpf/unidades/pr-ms/noticias/mpf-abre-investigacoes-sobre-onda-de-violencia-e-ataques-contra-comunidades-indigenas-em-mato-grosso-do-sul). State prosecutors and the city said the case was an attempted double murder arising from a family dispute. Photos of that crime had circulated in altered form, the victims had no Indigenous background, and leaders of two nearby Indigenous communities said none of their members had been attacked.\n\nRevista Fórum, which compiled many of the weekend's reports, also noted claims it could not verify, including posts that spoke of murdered children and a killed trans woman. 567politics found no confirmation of those claims.\n\n### Incidents at pro-Flávio events\n\nThe public record also includes incidents at events for Flávio Bolsonaro, though none has been shown to be an attack on his supporters. In Ilhabela, on the São Paulo coast, a car struck two children during a motorcade for Flávio on October 24. The 56-year-old driver was arrested. Police registered the case as attempted homicide, drunk driving and failure to give aid, Revista Fórum reported. The car carried Lula stickers, but the outlet noted that this did not establish the driver's motive. 567politics searched for reports of attacks on Flávio Bolsonaro's supporters in this period and found none confirmed by an authority.\n\n### Threats against Indigenous communities\n\nThe Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (Apib) said it had received more than 30 complaints of violence against Indigenous people during the 2026 election period. In an October 29 letter to Lula, it cited killings and death threats against the Guarani and Kaiowá people after the runoff, [according to Apib](https://apiboficial.org/2026/10/30/apib-pede-a-lula-medidas-urgentes-contra-a-violencia-e-avanco-na-demarcacao-de-73-terras-indigenas-ainda-em-2026/). The government has not publicly identified the three Indigenous people it counted among the dead.\n\nIn Tacuru, in Mato Grosso do Sul, audio recordings attributed to a city employee said Indigenous people should be poisoned through their water for voting for the PT, [the Indigenist Missionary Council (Cimi) reported](https://cimi.org.br/2026/10/envenenar-agua-guarani-kaiowa-nao-e-ameaca-isolada/). The city suspended the workers involved and opened a disciplinary process. Federal prosecutors gave the city 48 hours to explain who made the recordings, and the national Indigenous agency, Funai, asked the Federal Police to investigate. No poisoning has been reported. \"It is not an isolated threat, it is part of how they kill our people,\" said Voninho Benites, a coordinator of the Aty Guasu Guarani and Kaiowá assembly.\n\n### Pressure at work\n\nIn Paraná, two newly elected state deputies, Jessicão of the PL and Guilherme Kilter of Novo, urged followers on social media to fire employees who back Lula, Brasil de Fato reported. The state's labor prosecutors opened an investigation into suspected electoral hate and workplace discrimination and asked them to delete the posts. The report did not include responses from the two deputies.\n\n## What the counts can and cannot show\n\nSeveral organizations track political violence in Brazil, but they measure different things. Their numbers should not be added together.","textStyle":"body","layout":"text"},{"role":"htmltable","html":"