Octavio da Silva referee video: Mob brutally kills soccer referee after player is stabbed and killed in Brazil
Brazilian police have made an arrest in a grisly incident during a soccer match, in which a referee's leveling of a red card penalty set off a clash with a player that resulted in the player's death and ended with the official being brutally killed.
The killings occurred during an amateur game last Sunday, June 30, in Maranhão, a state in Brazil's northeast that is west of Recife.
Authorities say that after referee Octavio da Silva, 20, told player Josenir dos Santos, whose age is being reported as either 30 or 31, that he had been tossed out of a game, the two began an argument that resulted in Silva stabbing Santos on the field.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/07/199718617/mob-brutally-kills-soccer-referee-after-player-is-stabbed-and-killed
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