Rafael Mascarenhas case

Rafael Guimarães Mascarenhas (Rio de Janeiro, 24 September 1991 – Rio de Janeiro, 20 July 2010) was 18 years old and was a musician and student.

He was the youngest of the three children of actress Cissa Guimarães, the only one from her relationship with saxophonist Raul Mascarenhas.

The young man was also the father's brother of Mariana Belém, the only daughter of singer Fafá de Belém.

Rafael was a guitarist and backing vocalist for The Good Fellas, was one of the twelve remaining participants of the reality show Geleia do Rock on the cable channel Multishow,  was studying Civil Engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), but was in the process of transferring to the Architecture course.

and was about to leave for Europe, where he would take a music course.

The young man died on the same day the reality show was shown and there was no presentation of the program on the day.

Just a statement in honor of the musician, made by the presenter, Beto Lee.

His body was laid to rest at the Carmo Memorial Vertical Cemetery, in Bairro do Caju, during the entire Wednesday following his death.

Among the friends who attended the wake were Hélio de la Peña, Miguel Falabella, Claudia Jimenez, Heloísa Périssé, Diogo Vilela, Adriana Esteves, Camila Morgado, Marco Nanini, Susana Vieira, Maitê Proença, Sônia Braga, Lenine, Raul Gazolla, Rosamaria Murtinho, Nuno Leal Maia, Alexandre Borges and Lúcia Veríssimo.

The cremation ceremony took place the following day at the São Francisco Xavier Cemetery and Crematorium.

The Rafael Mascarenhas case refers to the accident that resulted in the murder of student and musician Rafael Mascarenhas on 20 July 2010.

Son of actress Cissa Guimarães, he was run over in Gávea inside the tunnel, now called Túnel Acústico Rafael Mascarenhas, which was closed for maintenance, but there was no maintenance on that day and there were no signs from CET-Rio that the Tunnel would be closed.

According to CET-Rio, the tunnel was closed only at the entrance to Favela da Rocinha, inside the Tunnel a U-turn was made through which two cars entered and one of them hit Rafael at a speed of approximately 100 km/h according to the expertise.

The young man was skateboarding with two friends, in a place where the practice of the sport was also not allowed.

On 27 July 2010, a mass was held on the seventh day of his death at Nossa Senhora da Paz Church, in Ipanema.

In addition to the boy's relatives, Lúcio Mauro, Sílvia Pfeifer, Lília Cabral, Maitê Proença, Carolina Dieckmann, Ney Latorraca, among others, attended the ceremony.

On 29 July 2010, a tribute was paid to the musician in the tunnel where he was run over.

Family members and friends of the musician attended the event.

Attendees sang and skated, as well as graffitied messages of love and peace on the tunnel wall.

The young man's mother, Cissa, wrote the phrase "Thank you Rafael!".

The young man's father played saxophone with the band The Good Fellas, in which Rafael was lead singer and guitarist.

On the one year anniversary of the young man's death, a concert was held in his honor at the Hipódromo Up nightclub, in Gávea.

The main attraction of the night was the band “Os Rafael” formed by former members of the band in which young Rafael played.

The musicians gathered especially for this performance.

The event was held by the musician's mother and was attended by family members such as the brothers João Velho and Camila, and the father, Raul Mascarenhas, as well as several friends such as Caetano Veloso, Guta Stresser, Patrycia Travassos, Giuseppe Oristanio, Eduardo Dussek, Dado Villa-Lobos, Cynthia Howlettand Alexandra Richter among others.

On the morning of the same day, the family gathered for a mass celebrated for a few people, at the convent of Clarissas, in Gávea.

Before that, during the early hours of the 20th, the actress went, with friends, to the place where the car was run over, where she laid flowers.

In the early hours of Tuesday, 20 July 2010, Rafael and two friends (João Pedro Gonçalves and Luiz Quinderé)  were skateboarding in the Acoustic Tunnel, an extension of the Zuzu Angel Tunnel, when Mascarenhas was run over.

The track was closed for maintenance as usual, always between 1:10 am and 4:10 am.

According to the investigations, two vehicles were heading towards São Conrado  and would have returned using an emergency passage that was open.

The two cars, oneHonda Civic and a Fiat Siena, would have taken advantage of the track ban to bet on a crack.

One of the vehicles, the Siena, hit Rafael Mascarenhas at high speed on the way down the tunnel.

The driver of the car, Rafael de Souza Bussanra, left the scene without helping.

After the incident, he was stopped by a police car, but was released after guaranteeing that he would pay bribes to the police.

According to firefighters, Rafael was taken while still alive to the Miguel Couto Hospital, in Leblon, in the South Zone of the city.

The Municipal Secretary of Health of Rio declared that the young man arrived at the unit with polytrauma to the head, chest, arms and legs.

He was operated on, but died around 8 am on the same day.

Images from the tunnel exit monitoring system showed the moment when the car of the driver, Rafael de Souza Bussanra, was approached by a Military Police car, which should have driven them to the police station, which did not happen.

Later, after the images surfaced, the military police officers who were in the vehicle, Sergeant Marcello José Leal Martins and Corporal Marcelo de Souza Bigon, did not notice any signs that the car had been involved.

in an accident.